%0 Journal Article %T Zero cycles on projective varieties and the norm principle %A Philippe Gille %A Nikita Semenov %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %R 10.1112/S0010437X09004394 %X Using the Gille-Merkurjev norm principle we compute in a uniform way the image of the degree map for quadrics (Springer's theorem), for twisted forms of maximal orthogonal Grassmannians (theorem of Bayer-Fluckiger and Lenstra), for E6- (Rost's theorem), and E7-varieties. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2114v2