Unramified cohomology and Witt groups of anisotropic Pfister quadrics
Unramified cohomology and Witt groups of anisotropic Pfister quadrics
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各向异性 Pfister 二次曲面的无枝上同调和 Witt 群
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9947-97-01940-5
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发表时间:
1997
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1.3
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R. Sujatha
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作者:
R. Sujatha
The unramified Witt group of an anisotropic conic over a field k, with char k 0 2, defined by the form (1, -a, -b) is known to be a quotient of the Witt group W(k) of k and isomorphic to W(k)/(1, -a, -b, ab)W(k). We compute the unramified cohomology group H43rk(C), where C is the three dimensional anisotropic quadric defined by the quadratic form (1, -a, -b, ab, -c) over k. We use these computations to study the unramified Witt group of C. Let k be a field of characteristic not two and K/k be a finitely generated field extension. The n-th unramified cohomology group of K over k with coefficients in Z/2 (cf. [CT]) is denoted Hnnr(K/k) (or just Hnnr(K) when the ground field being considered is clear). It is a subgroup of the Galois cohomology group Hn (K, Z/2) (abbreviated to Hn(K)) and is defined as Hnnr(K/k)= n H6nt (Spec Ov ,u2). vEV(K) Here V(K) is the set of all rank one discrete valuations on K that are trivial on k. For v E V(K), Ov denotes the corresponding discrete valuation ring; it is well-known that the group Hnt(Spec Ov, j2) injects into Hn (K). If X/k is a smooth projective geometrically integral variety and k(X) is its function field, then by abuse of terminology we refer to the groups Hnrn(k(X)) as the unramified cohomology groups of X. For a field F, let W(F) be the Witt group of quadratic forms over F [Sc]. For k and K/k as above, we can similarly define the unramified Witt group of K/k, denoted Wtr(K/k), as the subgroup of W(K) defined by Wnr (K/k) = n W(ov) vEV(K) Here W(Ov) is the Witt group of the discrete valuation ring Ov, which is a subgroup of W(K) [Sc, Chapter VI]. If X/k is smooth projective, then we refer to Wnr(k(X)) as the unramified Witt group of X. Recall that a variety X is said to be k-rational if X is k-birational to the projective space. Then the natural maps Hn(k) -* Hn(k(X)) (resp. W(k) -* W(k(X))) induce isomorphisms Htn(k) _ Hnrr(k(X)) (resp. W(k) _ Wnr(k(X))). Thus the unramified cohomology groups of a k-rational variety (resp. the unramified Witt Received by the editors November 7, 1995. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary IIE70; Secondary 13K05, 12G05.