Unramified division algebras do not always contain Azumaya maximal orders.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Unramified division algebras do not always contain Azumaya maximal orders.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1305.16013
author: Benjamin Antieau
author: Ben Williams
published in: Inventiones Mathematicae
publication date: 2014-08-15T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2216
review text: In their fundamental 1960 paper on Brauer groups [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 97, 367-409 (1961; Zbl 0100.26304)], \textit{M. Auslander} and \textit{O. Goldman} prove that over a regular domain \(R\) of Krull dimension at most two, the Brauer group satisfies \(B(R)=\bigcap B(R_{\mathfrak p})\), where \(\mathfrak p\) ranges over the prime ideals of height one. Having shown that a maximal order \(\Delta\) is reflexive, they need the condition \(\dim R\leq 2\) just to ensure that \(\Delta\) is projective. The question remained open whether the theorem remains true in higher dimensions. In the present paper, the authors confirm the necessity of \(\dim R\leq 2\) by viewing the existence problem of Azumaya algebras in the broader context where \(\mathrm{Spec\,}R\) is replaced by a regular Noetherian integral scheme. As a result, they exhibit a 6-dimensional smooth complex affine variety \(X\) and a Brauer class in \(\mathrm{Br}(X)\) such that the skew-field over the generic point of \(X\) has no Azumaya maximal order over \(X\).
reviewed by: Wolfgang Rump
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16K50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 14F22
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16H05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 16H10
zbMATH DE Number: 6330884
zbMATH Keywords: Brauer groups
zbMATH Keywords: maximal orders
zbMATH Keywords: Azumaya algebras
zbMATH Keywords: regular Noetherian integral schemes
zbMATH Keywords: smooth complex affine varieties
MaRDI profile type: MaRDI publication profile
OpenAlex ID: W1980472084
arXiv ID: 1209.2216
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DOI: 10.1007/S00222-013-0479-7
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6330884