Vertical unramified Brauer groups of Galois normic bundles
Yufan Liu
TL;DR
The paper addresses computing the vertical unramified Brauer group for normic bundles given by $N_{K/k}(oldsymbol{z})=P(x)$ with a finite Galois extension $K/k$. It extends Wei's partial compactification approach to arbitrary Galois extensions, using group-cohomological tools such as Shapiro's lemma, Mackey's restriction formula, and corestriction to obtain an explicit combinatorial description. The main result provides an isomorphism for $ ext{Br}_{ ext{vert}}(X)/ ext{Br}(k)$ in terms of dual Galois data $igl( ilde G_i'igr)$ and the relations $igl(orall iigr) extstyle igl( extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle extstyle igr)$, namely $ extstyle igl(orall iigr) l_i ext{Cor}_i( ilde ext{G}_i')=0$ in $ ilde G$ with a quotient by the image of $ ext{H}^1(k, ilde T)$. This yields an explicit, combinatorial computation of the vertical Brauer group tied to the irreducible factors of $P(x)$ and the Galois structure of $K/k$, enabling detailed Brauer-Manin analyses for normic bundles in broad settings.
Abstract
We compute the vertical unramified Brauer group of the Galois normic bundles, which are given by $\mathrm{N}_{K/k}(\mathbf{z})=P(x)$. Our main result gives combinatorial formulas for the vertical unramified Brauer groups in terms of the Galois group structure of $K/k$ and the irreducible factors of $P(x)$.
