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This note is motivated by the problem of "uniqueness of supercuspidal support" in the modular representation theory of p-adic groups. We show that any counterexample to the same property for a finite reductive group lifts to a counterexample for the corresponding unramified p-adic group. To this end, we need to prove the following natural property : any simple subquotient of a parabolically induced representation is isomorphic to a subquotient of the parabolic induction of some simple subquotient of the original representation. The point is that we put no finiteness assumption on the original representation.

We study the cohomological classification of vector bundles on smooth real affine surfaces and threefolds. We show that, as was observed in joint work in A. Asok and J. Fasel and in a coming joint paper with S. Banerjee and J. Fasel, under suitable cohomological assumptions on the real locus of such varieties, this classification mirrors the one obtained on algebraically closed base fields by Mohan Kumar and Murthy and by Asok and Fasel. Using an argument due to Fasel, we also give an efficient proof of a theorem of Kucharz characterising the triples of algebraic cycles that can be realised as the Chern classes of a rank $3$ bundle on a smooth real affine threefold. We further answer the questions left open by Kucharz; to our knowledge, we give the first instance of a projective module over a smooth affine $\mathbb{R}$-algebra of dimension $3$ with trivial Chern classes which is not stably free.