Picard groups, pull back and class groups
Abstract
Let be a certain affine algebraic surface over such that it admits a regular map to . We show that any non-trivial torsion line bundle in the relative Picard group can be pulled back to ideal classes of quadratic fields whose order can be made sufficiently large. This gives an affirmative answer to a question raised by Agboola and Pappas, in case of affine algebraic surfaces. For a closed point , we show that the cardinality of a subgroup of the Picard group of the fiber remains unchanged when varies over a Zarisky open subset in . We also show by constructing an element of odd order in the class group of certain imaginary quadratic fields that the Picard group of has a subgroup isomorphic to .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.04210,
title = {Picard groups, pull back and class groups},
author = {Kalyan Banerjee and Azizul Hoque},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04210},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
22 pages. Substantial revision has been done. To appear in `Monatshefte f\"ur Mathematik'