English

On p-torsions of geometric Brauer groups

Algebraic Geometry 2024-12-31 v3

Abstract

Let XX be a smooth projective integral variety over a finitely generated field kk of characteristic p>0p>0. We show that the finiteness of the exponent of the pp-primary part of Br(Xks)Gk\mathrm{Br}(X_{k^s})^{G_k} is equivalent to the Tate conjecture for divisors, generalizing D'Addezio's theorem for abelian varieties to arbitrary smooth projective varieties. In combination with the Leray spectral sequence for rigid cohomology derived from the Berthelot conjecture recently proved by Ertl-Vezzani, we show that the cokernel of Brnr(K(X))Br(Xks)Gk\mathrm{Br}_{\mathrm{nr}}(K(X)) \rightarrow \mathrm{Br}(X_{k^s})^{G_k} is of finite exponent. This completes the pp-primary part of the generalization of Artin-Grothendieck's theorem on relations between Brauer groups and Tate-Shafarevich groups to higher relative dimensions.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2406.19518,
  title  = {On p-torsions of geometric Brauer groups},
  author = {Zhenghui Li and Yanshuai Qin and with an appendix by Veronika Ertl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19518},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

Added Theorem 1.8, comments welcome