Speaker: 

Prof. T. Petrov

Institution: 

UC Irvine

Time: 

Tuesday, October 14, 2003 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

We study the subgroup B_0(G) of H^2(G,Q/Z) consisting of all elements which have trivial restrictions to every Abelian subgroup of G. The group B_0(G) serves as the simplest nontrivial obstruction to stable rationality of algebraic varieties V/G where V is a faithful complex linear representation of the group G. We prove that B_0(G) is trivial for finite simple groups of Lie type A_{\ell}.