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Title: Boundedness of the p-primary torsion of the Brauer group of products of varieties

Abstract: Let k be a field finitely generated over its prime subfield. We prove that the quotient of the Brauer group of a product of varieties over k by the Brauer groups of factors has finite exponent. The bulk of the proof concerns p-primary torsion in characteristic p. Our approach gives a more direct proof of the boundedness of the p-primary torsion of the Brauer group of an abelian variety, as recently proved by D'Addezio. We show that the transcendental Brauer group of a Kummer surface over k has finite exponent, but can be infinite when k is an infinite field of positive characteristic. This answers a question of Zarhin and the author.
Comments: 20 pages, contains an appendix by Alexander Petrov
Subjects: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG); Number Theory (math.NT)
MSC classes: 14F22, 14F30
Cite as: arXiv:2404.19150 [math.AG]
  (or arXiv:2404.19150v1 [math.AG] for this version)

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From: Alexei Skorobogatov [view email]
[v1] Mon, 29 Apr 2024 23:27:42 GMT (18kb)

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