{ "id": "1401.0791", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-01-04T08:27:29.000Z", "updated": "2014-10-07T18:17:44.000Z", "title": "The Brauer group and indecomposable (2,1)-cycles", "authors": [ "Bruno Kahn" ], "comment": "Added a reference for Corollary 2", "categories": [ "math.AG" ], "abstract": "This version gives more details on the weight argument used in Section 1; the new Lemma 2 fills an implicit gap in the initial proof of Proposition 2.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-01-04T08:27:29.000Z", "abstract": "We show that the torsion in the group of indecomposable (2,1)-cycles on a smooth projective variety over an algebraically closed field is isomorphic to a twist of its Brauer group, away from the characteristic. In particular, this group is infinite as soon as b_2-\\rho>0. We derive a new insight into Roitman's theorem on torsion 0-cycles over a surface.", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2014-10-07T18:17:44.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "brauer group", "indecomposable", "smooth projective variety", "roitmans theorem", "algebraically closed field" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1401.0791K" } } }