On abelian birational sections

DOI10.1090/S0894-0347-10-00660-0MaRDI QIDQ3584361zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hélène Esnault, Olivier Wittenberg

Publication date 27 August 2010

Published in Journal of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.1143

zbMATH Keywords

birational section conjectureelementary obstructionrational point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic cycles (14C25) Local ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G20) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Universal profinite groups (relationship to moduli spaces, projective and moduli towers, Galois theory) (14G32)

Abstract: For a smooth and geometrically irreducible variety X over a field k, the quotient of the absolute Galois group G_{k(X)} by the commutator subgroup of G_{�ar k(X)} projects onto G_k. We investigate the sections of this projection. We show that such sections correspond to "infinite divisions" of the elementary obstruction of Colliot-Th'el`ene and Sansuc. If k is a number field and the Tate-Shafarevich group of the Picard variety of X is finite, then such sections exist if and only if the elementary obstruction vanishes. For curves this condition also amounts to the existence of divisors of degree 1. Finally we show that the vanishing of the elementary obstruction is not preserved by extensions of scalars.

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