Additivity for the Motivic Trace and the Motivic Euler Characteristic

Abstract

In this paper, we settle an open conjecture regarding the assertion that the Euler-characteristic of $\rmG/\NT$ for a split reductive group scheme $\rmG$ and the normalizer of a split maximal torus $\NT$ over a field is $1$ in the Grothendieck-Witt ring with the characteristic exponent of the field inverted, under the assumption that the base field contains a $\sqrt -1$. Numerous applications of this to splittings in the motivic stable homotopy category and to Algebraic K-Theory are worked out in several related papers by Gunnar Carlsson and the authors.