TITLE: Transfers on Bloch groups and scissors congruence groups
QUESTION [10 upvotes]: I have a couple of questions concerning existence and description of
transfers for Bloch groups and scissors congruence groups/pre-Bloch
groups.

To fix notation and recall definitions: 
From the general algebraic K-theory machinery, we get transfers on
$K_3$. In particular, for a finite field extension $E/F$, we get a map
$\operatorname{tr}_{E/F}:K_3(E)\to K_3(F)$ such that the composition
$K_3(F)\to
K_3(E)\stackrel{\operatorname{tr}_{E/F}}{\longrightarrow}K_3(F)$ is 
multiplication with the degree $[E:F]$. 
Now by the work of Bloch, Dupont-Sah, Suslin and others, we have another description of
$K_3(F)^{\operatorname{ind}}=K_3(F)/K_3^M(F)$ in terms of an exact sequence
$$
0\to \widetilde{\operatorname{Tor}}(\mu(F),\mu(F))\to
K_3(F)^{\operatorname{ind}}\to B(F)\to 0.
$$
In the above, the Bloch group $B(F)$ is defined as
$$
B(F)=\ker\left(\mathcal{P}(F)\to \Lambda^2(F^\times):[x]\to
  x\wedge(1-x)\right)
$$
and the group $\mathcal{P}(F)$ is the pre-Bloch group or scissors
congruence group 
$$
\mathcal{P}(F)=\left(\bigoplus_{x\in
    F^\times\setminus\{1\}}\mathbb{Z}[x]\right)
/\left([x]-[y]+[y/x]-[(1-x^{-1})/(1-y^{-1})]+[(1-x)/(1-y)]\right),
$$
the relation coming from the five-term relation satisfied by the
dilogarithm. 
In particular, elements of the Bloch group $B(F)$ can be written down as
linear combinations of symbols $[x], x\in F^\times\setminus\{1\}$
satisfying certain relations.

Now I can formulate my questions on transfers on Bloch groups and scissors
congruence groups.

Does the transfer on $K_3$ induce a transfer on the Bloch group? I
think that this is not the case in general. The element $[x]+[1-x]\in
B(F)$ is independent of $x$, and is typically denoted by $c_F$. The
element $c_{\mathbb{R}}$ has exact order $6$ in $B(\mathbb{R})$, and
the element $c_{\mathbb{C}}$ is trivial in $B(\mathbb{C})$. This seems to
contradict transfers for the Bloch group (it does not contradict
transfers for $K_3^{\operatorname{ind}}$ because the torsion moves
from $B(F)$ to $\widetilde{\operatorname{Tor}}(\mu(F),\mu(F))$). Are there more
torsion elements like this, in particular with other odd orders? 
Are there further obstructions to the existence of transfers
on Bloch groups? If $F$ contains an algebraically closed fields,
it follows from work of Suslin and Levine that $B(F)$ is uniquely $\ell$-divisible for $\ell$
different from the characteristic - in particular $c_F=0$. Does the
$K$-theory transfer induce a transfer on the Bloch group in this
situation? What would be a good reference?
Is there an explicit description of what the transfer map on $K_3$
does on the Bloch group? I would be interested in a description that
only uses the definition of the Bloch group via points on
$\mathbb{P}^1(F)\setminus\{0,1,\infty\}$ given above. 
More generally, are there transfers known on scissors congruence groups/pre-Bloch
groups? As written above, these groups are defined in terms of points
on $\mathbb{P}^1\setminus\{0,1,\infty\}$ modulo the five-term
relation. A very naive approach to the definition of transfers for
pre-Bloch groups in an extension $E/F$ would be to sum over $E$-points lying over $F$-points of
$\mathbb{P}^1\setminus\{0,1,\infty\}$. Has anyone ever tried to work
this out, or are there known obstruction why this cannot provide a
transfer? Assuming it works, how would one relate such a naive definition to the definition of transfers for algebraic K-theory? In a related direction, what torsion elements besides those
in $B(F)$ are known in the scissors congruence groups over
fields which are not algebraically closed (in the algebraically closed
case, the scissors congruence groups are uniquely divisible)?

REPLY [4 votes]: I have worked on this question for some time (in the $\mathbb{Q}$-coefficients case), trying to construct norm maps on $B_2(F)$ in a way, similar to Milnor $K-$theory. Eventually, I was able to construct norm maps on the middle cohomology groups of complexes
$$
B_3(F) \otimes \Lambda^{n-3} F^{\times} \longrightarrow B_2(F) \otimes \Lambda^{n-2} F^{\times} \longrightarrow \Lambda^n F^{\times},
$$
which conjecturally coincide with $H^{n-1}_{M}(F,\mathbb{Q}(n)),$ for which existance of norm maps is known (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.00520). Unfortunately, I had to use the fact that the kernel of the map
$$B_2(F)\longrightarrow \Lambda^2 F^{\times}$$
does not change under a simple transcendental extension of the field, so the construction of the norm is not completely explicit at the end of the day.