Third unramified cohomology group of universal torsors on rational surfaces

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Abstract: Let k a field of characteristic zero. Let X be a smooth, projective, geometrically rational k-surface. Let mathcalT be a universal torsor over X with a k-point et mathcalTc a smooth compactification of mathcalT. There is an open question: is mathcalTc k-birationally equivalent to a projective space? We know that the unramified cohomology groups of degree 1 and 2 of mathcalT and mathcalTc are reduced to their constant part. For the analogue of the third cohomology groups, we give a sufficient condition using the Galois structure of the geometrical Picard group of X. This enables us to show that Hnr3(mathcalTc,mathbbQ/mathbbZ(2))/H3(k,mathbbQ/mathbbZ(2)) vanishes if X is a generalised Ch^atelet surface and that this group is reduced to its 2-primary part if X is a del Pezzo surface of degree at least 2.









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