Brauer group and the cohomological Brauer group of schemes.

Người báo cáo: Nguyễn Xuân Bách (FPT University)

Time: 16:00-17:45, 26/02/2026 (Thursday)

Venue: Room 612, A6, Institute of Mathematics-VAST

Online (Join Zoom Meeting) link: https://zoom.us/j/99636681387?pwd=0WscBnehOJig68SqctGluVuA3RwraE.1

Abstract: Grothendieck went further by defining the Brauer group of any scheme. The cohomological Brauer group of a quasi-compact scheme X is defined to be the torsion subgroup of the étale cohomology group $H^2(X, G_m)$. The Brauer group is always a subgroup of the cohomological Brauer group.

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