Index reduction for Brauer classes via stable sheaves (with an appendix by Bhargav Bhatt)

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNN010arXiv0706.1072MaRDI QIDQ6205844FDOQ6205844

Authors: Daniel Krashen, Max Lieblich 

Publication date: 7 June 2007

Abstract: We use twisted sheaves to study the problem of index reduction for Brauer classes. In general terms, this problem may be phrased as follows: given a field $k$, a $k$-variety $X$, and a class $alphainBr(k)$, compute the index of the class $alph{a}_{k(X)}inBr(X)$ obtained from $alpha$ by extension of scalars to $k(X)$. We give a general method for computing index reduction which refines classical results of Schofield and van den Bergh. When $X$ is a curve of genus 1, we use Atiyah's theorem on the structure of stable vector bundles with integral slope to show that our formula simplifies dramatically, giving a complete solution to the index reduction problem in this case. Using the twisted Fourier-Mukai transform, we show that a similarly simple formula describes homogeneous index reduction on torsors under higher-dimensional abelian varieties.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brauer groups of schemes (14F22)

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