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Extended Picard complexes and linear algebraic groups

Algebraic Geometry 2021-01-05 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

For a smooth geometrically integral variety XX over a field kk of characteristic 0, we introduce and investigate the extended Picard complex UPic(X)UPic(X). It is a certain complex of Galois modules of length 2, whose zeroth cohomology is kˉ[X]/kˉ\bar{k}[X]^*/ \bar{k}^* and whose first cohomology is Pic(Xˉ)Pic(\bar{X}), where kˉ\bar{k} is a fixed algebraic closure of kk and Xˉ\bar{X} is obtained from XX by extension of scalars to kˉ\bar{k}. When XX is a kk-torsor of a connected linear kk-group GG, we compute UPic(X)=UPic(G)UPic(X)=UPic(G) (in the derived category) in terms of the algebraic fundamental group π1(G)\pi_1(G). As an application we compute the elementary obstruction for such XX.

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@article{arxiv.math/0612156,
  title  = {Extended Picard complexes and linear algebraic groups},
  author = {Mikhail Borovoi and Joost van Hamel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0612156},
  year   = {2021}
}

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22 pages