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This paper reflects a talk given at the conference. We explain some of the ingredients of Merkurjev’s "elementary" proof of the Merkurjev-Suslin theorem [14].
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- Spectral Sequence
- Galois Group
- Galois Extension
- Central Simple Algebra
- Cyclic Extension
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van der Kallen, W. (1985). The merkurjev-suslin theorem. In: Reiner, I., Roggenkamp, K.W. (eds) Orders and their Applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0074799
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