Abstract:
The main results of the paper are two purity theorems for reductive group schemes over regular local rings containing a field. Using these two theorems a well-known Grothendieck-Serre conjecture on principal bundles is reduced to the simply-connected case. We point out that the mentioned reduction is one of the major steps in the proof of the conjecture that the author published in another work.
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Keywords:reductive group schemes, principal bundles, purity theorems, Grothendieck-Serre conjecture.