English

Brauer-Manin obstructions requiring arbitrarily many Brauer classes

Number Theory 2023-09-13 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

On a projective variety defined over a global field, any Brauer--Manin obstruction to the existence of rational points is captured by a finite subgroup of the Brauer group. We show that this subgroup can require arbitrarily many generators.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2309.05931,
  title  = {Brauer-Manin obstructions requiring arbitrarily many Brauer classes},
  author = {Jennifer Berg and Carlo Pagano and Bjorn Poonen and Michael Stoll and Nicholas Triantafillou and Bianca Viray and Isabel Vogt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05931},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

17 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-28T12:18:48.193Z