The Brauer-Grothendieck Group

by Alexei N. Skorobogatov and Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

This monograph provides a systematic treatment of the Brauer group of schemes, from the foundational work of Grothendieck to recent applications in arithmetic and algebraic geometry.

The importance of the cohomological Brauer group for applications to Diophantine equations and algebraic geometry was discovered soon after this group was introduced by Grothendieck. The Brauer-Manin obstruction plays a crucial role in the study of rational points...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030742474
• ISBN13: 9783030742478
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"