Overview
- Provides a self-contained introduction to the Brauer group of schemes
- Presents recent applications to rational points on varieties and to rationality problems in algebraic geometry
- Offers a detailed guide to the computation and finiteness of the Brauer group for various classes of varieties
Part of the book series: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics (MATHE3, volume 71)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The importance of the cohomological Brauer group for applications to Diophantine equations and algebraic geometry was discovered soon after this group was introduced by Grothendieck. The Brauer–Manin obstruction plays a crucial role in the study of rational points on varieties over global fields. The birational invariance of the Brauer group was recently used in a novel way to establish the irrationality of many new classes of algebraic varieties. The book covers the vast theory underpinning these and other applications.
Intended as an introduction to cohomological methods in algebraic geometry, most of the book is accessible to readers with a knowledge of algebra, algebraic geometry and algebraic number theory at graduate level. Much of the more advanced material is not readily available inbook form elsewhere; notably, de Jong’s proof of Gabber’s theorem, the specialisation method and applications of the Brauer group to rationality questions, an in-depth study of the Brauer–Manin obstruction, and proof of the finiteness theorem for the Brauer group of abelian varieties and K3 surfaces over finitely generated fields. The book surveys recent work but also gives detailed proofs of basic theorems, maintaining a balance between general theory and concrete examples.
Over half a century after Grothendieck's foundational seminars on the topic, The Brauer–Grothendieck Group is a treatise that fills a longstanding gap in the literature, providing researchers, including research students, with a valuable reference on a central object of algebraic and arithmetic geometry.
Reviews
“The book gives a comprehensive, clear, up-to date presentation of the theory, including most proofs. A particular strength is that it nicely collects many results, examples and counterexamples from various areas of algebraic and arithmetic geometry … . the book fills a wide gap and is a most welcome addition to the literature.” (Stefan Schröer, zbMATH 1490.14001, 2022)
“This book has collected in one place much of the fundamental cohomological theory of the Brauer group, along with excellent references. It then gives some coverage of further results, especially on the two important topics of obstructions to rationality and obstructions to the Hasse principle. For whatever is not included in this book, it gives a thorough and coherent overview of the relevant literature. Approximately four hundred references are given.” (Thomas Benedict Williams, Mathematical Reviews, September, 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Alexei Skorobogatov works in arithmetic algebraic geometry with focus on rational points on algebraic varieties, the Brauer group and the Brauer–Manin obstruction, K3 surfaces and abelian varieties. He is the author of the book Torsors and Rational Points and over 75 research papers. Alexei Skorobogatov is the recipient of a Whitehead prize of the London Mathematical Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Brauer–Grothendieck Group
Authors: Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, Alexei N. Skorobogatov
Series Title: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74248-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-74247-8Published: 31 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-74248-5Published: 30 July 2021
Series ISSN: 0071-1136
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5655
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 450
Topics: Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, Associative Rings and Algebras