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Maksim Zhykhovich

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arXiv2026

Motives, cohomological invariants and the Freudenthal magic square

We investigate cohomological invariants and motivic invariants of semisimple algebraic groups arising in the Freudenthal magic square. Besides, we show that if the Rost invariant of a strongly inner group of type $E_7$ is a sum of at most two symbols modulo $2$, then it is isotropic over an odd degree field extension, and use this fact to give a different proof of a result of Petrov and Rigby. Moreover, we give a motivic interpretation of a result of Garibaldi and Petersson about a cohomological invariant of degree $5$ for certain groups of type $^2E_6$ which detects their isotropy.

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arXiv2025

$J$-invariant of linear algebraic groups of outer type

We extend the notion of the $J$-invariant to arbitrary semisimple linear algebraic groups and provide complete decompositions for the normed Chow motives of all generically quasi-split twisted flag varieties. Besides, we establish some combinatorial patterns for normed Chow groups and motives and provide some explicit formulae for values of the $J$-invariant.

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arXiv2018

Hasse principle for Rost motives

We prove a Hasse principle for binary direct summands of the Chow motive of a smooth projective quadric Q over a number field F. Besides, we show that such summands are twists of Rost motives. In the case when F has at most one real embedding we describe a complete motivic decomposition of Q.

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arXiv2018

Critical varieties and motivic equivalence for algebras with involution

Motivic equivalence for algebraic groups was recently introduced in [9], where a characterization of motivic equivalent groups in terms of higher Tits indexes is given. As a consequence, if the quadrics associated to two quadratic forms have the same Chow motives with coefficients in F_2, this remains true for any two projective homogeneous varieties of the same type under the orthogonal groups of those two quadratic forms. Our main result extends this to all groups of classical type, and to some exceptional groups, introducing a notion of critical variety. On the way, we prove that motivic equivalence of the automorphism groups of two involutions can be checked after extending scalars to some index reduction field, which depends on the type of the involutions. In addition, we describe conditions on the base field which guarantee that motivic equivalent involutions actually are isomorphic, extending a result of Hoffmann on quadratic forms.

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arXiv2014

Integral motives, relative Krull-Schmidt principle, and Maranda-type theorems

In the present article we investigate properties of the category of the integral Grothendieck-Chow motives over a field. We discuss the Krull-Schmidt principle for integral motives, provide a complete list of the generalized Severi-Brauer varieties with indecomposable integral motive, and exploit a relation between the category of motives of twisted flag varieties and integral $p$-adic representations of finite groups.

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arXiv2012

Isotropy of unitary involutions

We prove the so-called Unitary Isotropy Theorem, a result on isotropy of a unitary involution. The analogous previously known results on isotropy of orthogonal and symplectic involutions as well as on hyperbolicity of orthogonal, symplectic, and unitary involutions are formal consequences of this theorem. A component of the proof is a detailed study of the quasi-split unitary grassmannians.

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arXiv2012

Decompositions of motives of generalized Severi-Brauer varieties

Let p be a positive prime number and X be a Severi-Brauer variety of a central division algebra D of degree p^n, with n>0. We describe all shifts of the motive of X in the complete motivic decomposition of a variety Y, which splits over the function field of X and satisfies the nilpotence principle. In particular, we prove the motivic decomposability of generalized Severi-Brauer varieties X(p^m,D) of right ideals in D of reduced dimension p^m, m=0,1,...,n-1, except the cases p=2, m=1 and m=0 (for any prime p), where motivic indecomposability was proven by Nikita Karpenko.

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