HODGE-THEORETIC OBSTRUCTION TO THE EXISTENCE OF QUATERNION ALGEBRAS

DOI10.1112/S0024609302001546zbMATH Open1028.16010arXivmath/0009115MaRDI QIDQ4418902FDOQ4418902

Authors: Andrew Kresch 

Publication date: 27 October 2003

Published in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The class in the Brauer group of a quaternion algebra over a field is 2-torsion. We study the following question: Which 2-torsion elements of the Brauer group of a complex function field are representable by quaternion algebras? Using intersection theory to show that a certain cohomology class (on a smooth projective model) is the class of an algebraic cycle, we arrive at an obstruction, defined on a subgroup of the 2-torsion of the Brauer group, to representability by quaternion algebras. For the function fields of some complex threefolds, the obstruction map is computed and found to be nontrivial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0009115

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zbMATH Keywords

cohomology groupsequivariant cohomologyfunction fieldsAzumaya algebrasquaternion algebrasBrauer groupsbiquaternion division algebrasprojective complex varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Intersection theory, characteristic classes, intersection multiplicities in algebraic geometry (14C17) Brauer groups of schemes (14F22) Brauer groups (algebraic aspects) (16K50)

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