English

Formal GAGA for gerbes

Algebraic Geometry 2023-10-03 v2

Abstract

Fix an II-adically complete Noetherian ring AA and suppose XX is a proper AA-scheme. This article concerns the relationship between the Brauer group of XX and that of the various XnX_n where XnX_n is the fiber over A/In+1A/I^{n+1}. In particular, we answer a question of Grothendieck by showing that, in positive and mixed characteristic, there are examples of XX with nontrivial Brauer classes that restrict to zero on all the XnX_n. We characterize such behavior, prove this cannot happen in characteristic zero, and deduce a formal GAGA statement for Brauer classes.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2305.19114,
  title  = {Formal GAGA for gerbes},
  author = {Andrew Kresch and Siddharth Mathur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19114},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

23 pages, second version. Changes include: restructuring of article, strengthening of approximation results, new result on formal GAGA for Brauer classes, and other minor refinements. Comments welcome

R2 v1 2026-06-28T10:50:46.806Z