Ramakrishnan's injectivity conjecture for the Bloch regulator

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Let FF be a subfield of C\mathbb{C} with embedding σ:F↪C\sigma:F\hookrightarrow\mathbb{C}. Let B(F)\mathcal B(F) and B(C)\mathcal B(\mathbb{C}) denote the corresponding Bloch groups, and let Q(2)=(2π−1)2Q⊂C\mathbb{Q}(2)=(2\pi\sqrt{-1})^2\mathbb{Q}\subset\mathbb{C}. Ramakrishnan's conjecture. For every such embedded subfield, the map

B(F)⊗Q⟶σB(C)⊗Q⟶C/Q(2)\mathcal B(F)\otimes\mathbb{Q}\stackrel{\sigma}{\longrightarrow}\mathcal B(\mathbb{C})\otimes\mathbb{Q}\longrightarrow\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{Q}(2)

is injective. This generalizes Milnor's conjecture and is related to injectivity of the Bloch regulator; the source gives no resolution evidence, so the conjecture is recorded as open.

References

Primary source

Walter D. Neumann and Jun Yang, “Rationality problems for Chern-Simons invariants”, arXiv:math/9712225 (1997).

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