Abstract: | ![]() LetR be a commutative, semi-local ring,I1, ...,Is ideals. In this paper, we define therelative Milnor K-groups of (R;I1, ...,Is),KpM(R;I1, ...,Is), and show that these groups have many of the properties of the usual MilnorK-groups of a field. In particular, assuming a weak condition on the ideals, we show thatKpM(R;I1, ...,Is) is isomorphic to the weightp portion of the relative QuillenK-groupKp(R;I1, ...,Is), after inverting (p–1)!. We also define the relative group homology of GLn(R;I1, ...,Is), and show thatKpM(R;I1, ...,Is) is isomorphic toHp(GLp(R;I1, ...,Is))/Im(Hp(GLp–1 (R;I1, ...,Is))). Finally, we consider a generalization to the relative setting of Kato's conjecture asserting that the Galois symbol gives an isomorphism fromKpM(F)/lv to , and show that this relative version of Kato's conjecture implies the Quillen-Lichtenbaum conjectures asserting the Chern class:
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