Unramified Brauer groups of conic bundle threefolds in characteristic two

We establish a formula for computing the unramified Brauer group of tame conic bundle threefolds in characteristic $2$. The formula depends on the arrangement and residue double covers of the discriminant components, the latter being governed by Artin-Schreier theory (instead of Kummer theory in cha...

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Veröffentlicht in:American journal of mathematics 2021-10, Vol.143 (5), p.1601-1631
Hauptverfasser: Auel, Asher, Bigazzi, Alessandro, Böhning, Christian, Bothmer, Hans-Christian Graf von
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We establish a formula for computing the unramified Brauer group of tame conic bundle threefolds in characteristic $2$. The formula depends on the arrangement and residue double covers of the discriminant components, the latter being governed by Artin-Schreier theory (instead of Kummer theory in characteristic not $2$). We use this to give new examples of threefold conic bundles defined over $\Bbb{Z}$ that are not stably rational over $\Bbb{C}$.
ISSN:0002-9327
1080-6377
1080-6377
DOI:10.1353/ajm.2021.0040