Über die Picardgruppen affinoider Algebren (Q795883)

For an affinoid algebra A over a non-archimedean valued complete and stable field k, this paper gives a method for the calculation of the Picard group Pic(A) of A. The main result is: ''If the reduction \(\bar A\) of A has no zero-divisors then the canonical map \(\beta:Pic(\bar A)\to Pic(A)\) is injective. If moreover \(\bar A\) is non-singular then \(\beta\) is an isomorphism.'' This result was already known for fields with a discrete valuation. There is a list of examples, with \(\bar A\) singular, for which the cokernel of \(\beta\) is calculated. In one example one uses the structure of the formal group of an elliptic curve over a valuation ring.