Thin Severi-Brauer varieties

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2011.V7.N3.A7zbMATH Open1233.14019arXiv0912.3359MaRDI QIDQ635868FDOQ635868

Authors: M.-A. Knus, Jean-Pierre Tignol 

Publication date: 24 August 2011

Published in: Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Severi-Brauer varieties are twisted forms of projective spaces (in the sense of Galois cohomology) and are associated in a functorial way to central simple algebras. Similarly quadrics are related to algebras with involution. Since thin projective spaces are finite sets, thin Severi-Brauer varieties are finite sets endowed with a Galois action; they are associated to etale algebras. Similarly, thin quadrics are etale algebras with involution. We discuss embeddings of thin Severi-Brauer varieties and thin quadrics in Severi-Brauer varieties and quadrics as geometric analogues of embeddings of etale algebras into central simple algebras (with or without involution), and consider the geometric counterpart of the Clifford algebra construction.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3359

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zbMATH Keywords

Clifford algebraGalois cohomology[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDtale+algebra&go=Go ��tale algebra]Severi-Brauer varietycentral simple algebra with involutionfield of characteristic onethin projective spacethin quadric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Varieties over global fields (11G35) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Finite-dimensional division rings (16K20) Quadratic spaces; Clifford algebras (11E88) Étale and flat extensions; Henselization; Artin approximation (13B40)

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