Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
This paper gives a new upper bound for the essential dimension and the essential 2-dimension of the split simply connected group of type ${{E}_{7}}$ over a field of characteristic not 2 or 3. In particular,
$\text{ed}\left( {{E}_{7}} \right)\,\le \,29$, and
$\text{ed}\left( {{E}_{7}};\,2 \right)\,\le \,27$.