Twisted forms of toric varieties

DOI10.1007/S00031-016-9394-5MaRDI QIDQ326359zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Duncan

Publication date 12 October 2016

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4039

zbMATH Keywords

Galois cohomology toric variety twisted form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25)

Abstract: We consider the set of forms of a toric variety over an arbitrary field: those varieties which become isomorphic to a toric variety after base field extension. In contrast to most previous work, we also consider arbitrary isomorphisms rather than just those that respect a torus action. We define an injective map from the set of forms of a toric variety to a non-abelian second cohomology set, which generalizes the usual Brauer class of a Severi-Brauer variety. Additionally, we define a map from the set of forms of a toric variety to the set of forms of a separable algebra along similar lines to a construction of A. Merkurjev and I. Panin. This generalizes both a result of M.~Blunk for del Pezzo surfaces of degree 6, and the standard bijection between Severi-Brauer varieties and central simple algebras

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The main object of the paper under review is a toric variety \(X\) defined over an arbitrary field \(k\) ( = a normal \(k\)-variety with a faithful action of a torus \(T\) which has a dense open orbit) and its twisted forms \(X'\) (varieties which become isomorphic to \(X\) after extending \(k\)). This notion depends on the category one works with. One can define at least three different ones: 1) the category of neutral toric varieties (when the open orbit is assumed to have a rational point and can thus be identified with \(T\)) together with toric morphisms (which restrict to group homomorphisms of tori); 2) the category of toric varieties with torus-equivariant morphisms; 3) the category of toric varieties with arbitrary morphisms, ignoring the toric structure. Whereas the first two categories had been extensively studied in the literature, the third one seems to be new. The author describes the twisted forms of \(X\) in this category by constructing an embedding of \(H^ 1(k,\mathrm{Aut}(X))\) into certain nonabelian second Galois cohomology, whose elements are related to the so-called ``elementary obstruction introduced by \textit{J.-L.~Colliot-Thélène} \textit{and J.-J.~Sansuc} [Duke Math. J. 54, 375--492 (1987; Zbl.~0659.14028)].

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