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Quadrics contained in the (complex) Cayley plane
In the paper
Ilev, Manivel - The Chow ring of the Cayley plane
we can learn, that $CH^8(X)$, with $X := E_6/P_1$, denoting the Cayley plane, has three generators with one of them being the class of ...
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Norm variety for n=5, p=2 not isomorphic to a quadric
In the paper "Motivic construction of cohomological invariants", the author displays a list of known norm varieties for several $n,p$ on page $11$. For $p=2, n=5$ it says that a norm variety is given ...
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The splitting pattern of the Killing form of an algebraic group and the Tits index
Let us assume that $G$ is an anisotropic semisimple, connected algebraic group over a field $k$ of characteristic zero.
Let $K_G$ denote the class of its Killing form in the Witt ring of $k$.
Let $X$ ...