Diagonal quartic surfaces and transcendental elements of the Brauer group
Date
2010ISSN
1474-7480Source
Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of JussieuVolume
9Issue
4Pages
769-798Google Scholar check
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We exhibit central simple algebras over the function field of a diagonal quartic surface over the complex numbers that represent the 2-torsion part of its Brauer group. We investigate whether the 2-primary part of the Brauer group of a diagonal quartic surface over a number field is algebraic and give sufficient conditions for this to be the case. In the last section we give an obstruction to weak approximation due to a transcendental class on a specific diagonal quartic surface, an obstruction which cannot be explained by the algebraic Brauer group which in this case is just the constant algebras. Copyright © 2010 Cambridge University Press.