Motivic cohomology of the Nisnevich classifying space of even Clifford groups

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the split even Clifford group Γ + n and compute the mod 2 motivic cohomology ring of its Nisnevich classifying space. The description we obtain is quite similar to the one provided for spin groups in [10]. The fundamental difference resides in the behaviour of the second subtle Stiefel-Whitney class that is non-trivial for even Clifford groups, while it vanished in the spin-case.