Experiments on the Brauer map in high codimension

Mathur, Siddharth

doi:10.2140/ant.2022.16.747

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Experiments on the Brauer map in high codimension

Siddharth Mathur

Vol. 16 (2022), No. 3, 747–775

DOI: 10.2140/ant.2022.16.747

Abstract

Using twisted sheaves, formal-local methods, and elementary transformations we show that separated algebraic spaces which are constructed as pushouts or contractions (of curves) have enough Azumaya algebras. This implies (1) Under mild hypothesis, every cohomological Brauer class is representable by an Azumaya algebra away from a closed subset of codimension $\geq 3$ , generalizing an early result of Grothendieck and (2) $Br (X) = {Br}^{'} (X)$ when $X$ is an algebraic space obtained from a quasiprojective scheme by contracting a curve. This result is valid for all dimensions but if we specialize to surfaces, it solves the question entirely: there are always enough Azumaya algebras on separated surfaces.

Keywords

Brauer group, twisted sheaves, Brauer map, algebraic stacks, gerbes

Mathematical Subject Classification

Primary: 14A20, 14F22

Milestones

Received: 31 August 2020

Revised: 22 June 2021

Accepted: 30 July 2021

Published: 9 July 2022

Authors

Siddharth Mathur
Mathematisches Institut Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf Germany

Vol. 16, No. 3, 2022