Milnor conjecture
In mathematics, the Milnor conjecture was a proposal by of a description of the Milnor K-theory of a general field F with characteristic different from 2, by means of the Galois cohomology of F with coefficients in Z/2Z. It was proved by.Statement
Let F be a field of characteristic different from 2. Then there is an isomorphism
for all n ≥ 0, where KM denotes the Milnor ring.The proof of this theorem by Vladimir Voevodsky uses several ideas developed by Voevodsky, Alexander Merkurjev, Andrei Suslin, Markus Rost, Fabien Morel, Eric Friedlander, and others, including the newly minted theory of motivic cohomology and the motivic Steenrod algebra.Generalizations
The analogue of this result for primes other than 2 was known as the Bloch–Kato conjecture. Work of Voevodsky and Markus Rost yielded a complete proof of this conjecture in 2009; the result is now called the norm residue isomorphism theorem.
