Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor

DOI10.4310/MRL.2011.V18.N6.A18zbMATH Open1297.18005arXiv1104.2105MaRDI QIDQ2391577FDOQ2391577

Authors: Bjorn Poonen, Eric Rains 

Publication date: 5 August 2013

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a general formula relating self cup products in cohomology to connecting maps in nonabelian cohomology, and apply it to obtain a formula for the self cup product associated to the Weil pairing.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2105

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zbMATH Keywords

Weil pairingtheta characteristicself cup product

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abelian varieties of dimension (> 1) (11G10) [https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?search=%2211G30%22&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns120=1 Curves of arbitrary genus or genus ( e 1) over global fields (11G30)] Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Arithmetic ground fields for abelian varieties (14K15) Nonabelian homological algebra (category-theoretic aspects) (18G50)

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