The topological period-index problem over 6-complexes

DOI10.1112/JTOPOL/JTT042MaRDI QIDQ2921092zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benjamin Antieau, Ben Williams

Publication date 30 September 2014

Published in Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4430

zbMATH Keywords

twisted \(K\)-theoryBrauer groupsperiod-index problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brauer groups of schemes (14F22) Twisted (K)-theory; differential (K)-theory (19L50) Homology of classifying spaces and characteristic classes in algebraic topology (55R40)

Abstract: By comparing the Postnikov towers of the classifying spaces of projective unitary groups and the differentials in a twisted Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence, we deduce a lower bound on the topological index in terms of the period, and solve the topological version of the period-index problem in full for finite CW complexes of dimension at most 6. Conditions are established that, if they were met in the cohomology of a smooth complex 3-fold variety, would disprove the ordinary period-index conjecture. Examples of higher-dimensional varieties meeting these conditions are provided. We use our results to furnish an obstruction to realizing a period-2 Brauer class as the class associated to a sheaf of Clifford algebras, and varieties are constructed for which the total Clifford invariant map is not surjective. No such examples were previously known.

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