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Cohomology for Picard-Vessiot theory

Rings and Algebras 2023-10-05 v2

Abstract

We introduce a cohomology theory that classifies differential objects that arise from Picard-Vessiot theory, using the differential Hopf-Galois descent. To do this, we provide an explicit description of Picard-Vessiot theory in terms of differential torsors. We then use this cohomology to give a bijective correspondence between differential objects and differential torsors. As an application, we prove a universal bound for the differential splitting degree of differential central simple algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2308.03025,
  title  = {Cohomology for Picard-Vessiot theory},
  author = {Man Cheung Tsui and Yidi Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.03025},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

19 pages; Proposition 2.7 was rewritten; Other minor changes