On the Grothendieck--Serre conjecture concerning principal G-bundles over semi-local Dedekind domains

Abstract

Let R be a semi-local Dedekind domain and let K be the field of fractions of R. Let G be a reductive semisimple simply connected R-group scheme such that every semisimple normal R-subgroup scheme of G contains a split R-torus G_m. We prove that the kernel of the map H^1_et(R,G)-> H^1_et(K,G) induced by the inclusion of R into K, is trivial. This result partially extends a theorem of Nisnevich.