Brauer Groups and Obstruction Problems: Moduli Spaces and Arithmetic: 320 (Progress in Mathematics, 320) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319836013 ISBN 13: 9783319836010

Publisher: Birkhäuser, 2018

Synopsis

The contributions in this book explore various contexts in which the derived category of coherent sheaves on a variety determines some of its arithmetic. This setting provides new geometric tools for interpreting elements of the Brauer group. With a view towards future arithmetic applications, the book extends a number of powerful tools for analyzing rational points on elliptic curves, e.g., isogenies among curves, torsion points, modular curves, and the resulting descent techniques, as well as higher-dimensional varieties like K3 surfaces. Inspired by the rapid recent advances in our understanding of K3 surfaces, the book is intended to foster cross-pollination between the fields of complex algebraic geometry and number theory.

Contributors:

· Nicolas Addington

· Benjamin Antieau

· Kenneth Ascher

· Asher Auel

· Fedor Bogomolov

· Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

· Krishna Dasaratha

· Brendan Hassett

· Colin Ingalls

· Martí Lahoz

· Emanuele Macrì

· Kelly McKinnie

· Andrew Obus

· Ekin Ozman

· Raman Parimala

· Alexander Perry

· Alena Pirutka

· Justin Sawon

· Alexei N. Skorobogatov

· Paolo Stellari

· Sho Tanimoto

· Hugh Thomas

· Yuri Tschinkel

· Anthony Várilly-Alvarado

· Bianca Viray

· Rong Zhou

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The contributions in this book explore various contexts in which the derived category of coherent sheaves on a variety determines some of its arithmetic. This setting provides new geometric tools for interpreting elements of the Brauer group. With a view towards future arithmetic applications, the book extends a number of powerful tools for analyzing rational points on elliptic curves, e.g., isogenies among curves, torsion points, modular curves, and the resulting descent techniques, as well as higher-dimensional varieties like K3 surfaces. Inspired by the rapid recent advances in our understanding of K3 surfaces, the book is intended to foster cross-pollination between the fields of complex algebraic geometry and number theory.

Contributors:

· Nicolas Addington

· Benjamin Antieau

· Kenneth Ascher

· Asher Auel

· Fedor Bogomolov

· Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène

· Krishna Dasaratha

· Brendan Hassett

·Colin Ingalls

· Martí Lahoz

· Emanuele Macrì

· Kelly McKinnie

· Andrew Obus

· Ekin Ozman

· Raman Parimala

· Alexander Perry

· Alena Pirutka

· Justin Sawon

· Alexei N. Skorobogatov

· Paolo Stellari

· Sho Tanimoto

· Hugh Thomas

· Yuri Tschinkel

· Anthony Várilly-Alvarado

· Bianca Viray

· Rong Zhou

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319836013
• ISBN 13: 9783319836010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Auel Asher, Hassett Brendan, Várilly-Alvarado Anthony, Viray Bianca