The multipliers of similitudes and the Brauer group of homogeneous varieties.

DOI10.1515/crll.1995.461.13zbMath0819.16015OpenAlexW1748013871MaRDI QIDQ4326821

Alexander S. Merkurjev, Jean-Pierre E. Tignol

Publication date: 22 August 1995

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/resolveppn/?PPN=GDZPPN002212501

zbMATH Keywords

algebras with involutionBrauer groupscentral simple algebrasClifford algebrasquaternion algebrasClifford groupssemisimple linear algebraic groupshomogeneous varietiesreduced normsimilitudesinvolution of orthogonal type\(\sigma\)- symmetric elementsClifford bimodulesdiscriminant extensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields (20G15) Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Brauer groups of schemes (14F22)

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