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Unramified Brauer group and its applications

Algebraic Geometry 2018-06-11 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

This is a textbook on arithmetic geometry with special regard to unramified Brauer groups of algebraic varieties. The topics include Galois cohomology, Brauer groups, obstructions to stable rationality, arithmetic and geometry of quadrics, Weil restriction of scalars, algebraic tori, an example of a stably rational non-rational variety, Brauer-Manin obstruction. All material is split into locally trivial problems with detailed hints.

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@article{arxiv.1512.00874,
  title  = {Unramified Brauer group and its applications},
  author = {Sergey Gorchinskiy and Constantin Shramov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00874},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Minor corrections; 189 pages, in Russian