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Birational classification for algebraic tori

Algebraic Geometry 2025-12-30 v9 Number Theory Rings and Algebras

Abstract

We give a stably birational classification for algebraic tori of dimensions 33 and 44 over a field kk. First, we define the weak stably equivalence of algebraic tori and show that there exist 1313 (resp. 128128) weak stably equivalent classes of algebraic tori TT of dimension 33 (resp. 44) which are not stably rational by computing some cohomological stably birational invariants, e.g. the Brauer-Grothendieck group of XX where XX is a smooth compactification of TT, provided by Kunyavskii, Skorobogatov and Tsfasman. We make a procedure to compute such stably birational invariants effectively and the computations are done by using the computer algebra system GAP. Second, we define the pp-part of the flabby class [T^]fl[\hat{T}]^{fl} as a Zp[Sylp(G)]\mathbb{Z}_p[{\rm Syl}_p(G)]-lattice and prove that they are faithful and indecomposable Zp[Sylp(G)]\mathbb{Z}_p[{\rm Syl}_p(G)]-lattices unless it vanishes for p=2p=2 (resp. p=2,3p=2,3) in dimension 33 (resp. 44) via pp-adic analysis. The Zp\mathbb{Z}_p-ranks of them are also given. Third, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for which two not stably rational algebraic tori TT and TT^\prime of dimensions 33 (resp. 44) are stably birationally equivalent in terms of the splitting fields and the weak stably equivalent classes of TT and TT^\prime. In particular, the splitting fields of them should coincide if T^\hat{T} and T^\hat{T}^\prime are indecomposable. Forth, for each 77 cases of not stably but retract rational algebraic tori of dimension 44, we find an algebraic torus TT^\prime of dimension 44 which satisfies that T×kTT\times_k T^\prime is stably rational. Finally, we give a criteria to determine whether two algebraic tori TT and TT^\prime of general dimensions are stably birationally equivalent when TT (resp. TT^\prime) is stably birationally equivalent to some algebraic torus TT^{\prime\prime} of dimension up to 44.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.02280,
  title  = {Birational classification for algebraic tori},
  author = {Akinari Hoshi and Aiichi Yamasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.02280},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

210 pages, added Definition 1.25, Theorem 1.26, Corollary 1.27 and a paragraph before Definition 1.25, modified Theorem 1.29 (Main theorem 2), Theorem 1.36 (Main theorem 4) and Theorem 1.39 (Main theorem 5)

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