The Brauer-Grothendieck Group

By: Thelene, Jean-Louis ColliotContributor(s): Skorobogatov, Alexei NLanguage: English Series: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics, 0071-1136 ; 71Publication details: Switzerland Springer 2021Description: xv, 453pISBN: 9783030742478 (HB)Subject(s): Arithmetical algebraic geometry | Brauer group | Cohomology operations | Grothendieck groups | Mathematics
Contents:
1. Galois Cohomology 2. Étale Cohomology 3. Brauer Groups of Schemes 4. Comparison of the Two Brauer Groups, II 5. Varieties Over a Field 6. Birational Invariance 7. Severi-Brauer Varieties and hypersurfaces 8. Singular Schemes and Varieties 9. Varieties with a Group Action 10. Schemes Over Local Rings and Fields 11. Families of Varieties 12. Rationality in a Family 13. The Brauer-Manin Set and the formal lemma 14. Rational Points in the Brauer-Manin Set 15. The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Zero-Cycles 16. The Tate Conjecture, Abelian Varieties and K3 Surfaces
Summary: This monograph provides a systematic treatment of the Brauer group of schemes, from the foundational work of Grothendieck to recent applications in arithmetic and algebraic geometry. 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 in book 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
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Includes Bibliography (427-448) and Index

1. Galois Cohomology
2. Étale Cohomology
3. Brauer Groups of Schemes
4. Comparison of the Two Brauer Groups, II
5. Varieties Over a Field
6. Birational Invariance
7. Severi-Brauer Varieties and hypersurfaces
8. Singular Schemes and Varieties
9. Varieties with a Group Action
10. Schemes Over Local Rings and Fields
11. Families of Varieties
12. Rationality in a Family
13. The Brauer-Manin Set and the formal lemma
14. Rational Points in the Brauer-Manin Set
15. The Brauer-Manin Obstruction for Zero-Cycles
16. The Tate Conjecture, Abelian Varieties and K3 Surfaces

This monograph provides a systematic treatment of the Brauer group of schemes, from the foundational work of Grothendieck to recent applications in arithmetic and algebraic geometry. 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 in book 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

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