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Notation |
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Part I Preliminaries on Galois cohomology |
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Chapter 1 Group Cohomology |
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1.1 Definition and basic properties |
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1.2 Behavior under change of group |
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1.3 Cohomology of finite groups |
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16 | (1) |
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1.4 Permutation and stably permutation modules |
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17 | (2) |
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Chapter 2 Galois Cohomology |
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2.1 Descent for fibered categories |
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19 | (7) |
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2.2 Forms and first Galois cohomology |
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26 | (5) |
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2.3 Cohomology of profinite groups |
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31 | (5) |
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2.4 Cohomology of the absolute Galois group |
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36 | (2) |
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2.5 Picard group as a stably permutation module |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (1) |
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2.7 Cohomology of the inverse limit |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (2) |
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45 | (40) |
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Chapter 3 Brauer Group of a Field |
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47 | (18) |
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3.1 Definition and basic properties |
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47 | (9) |
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3.2 Brauer group and arithmetic properties of fields |
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56 | (2) |
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3.3 Brauer group and Severi-Brauer varieties |
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58 | (5) |
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63 | (2) |
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Chapter 4 Residue Map on a Brauer Group |
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4.1 Complete discrete valuation fields |
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65 | (3) |
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4.2 Brauer group of a complete discrete valuation field |
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68 | (5) |
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4.3 Unramified Brauer group of a function field |
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73 | (2) |
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4.4 Brauer group of a variety |
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75 | (3) |
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4.5 Geometric meaning of the residue map |
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78 | (5) |
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83 | (2) |
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Part III Applications to rationality problems |
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85 | (52) |
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Chapter 5 Example of a Unirational Non-rational Variety |
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87 | (6) |
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87 | (1) |
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5.2 Construction of a group |
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88 | (3) |
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91 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 Arithmetic of Two-dimensional Quadrics |
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6.1 Invariants of quadrics |
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93 | (3) |
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6.2 Geometric meaning of invariants of quadrics |
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96 | (2) |
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6.3 Degenerations of quadrics |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 Non-rational Double Covers of P3 |
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101 | (10) |
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7.1 More on the unramified Brauer group |
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101 | (1) |
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7.2 Families of two-dimensional quadrics |
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102 | (1) |
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7.3 Construction of a geometric example |
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103 | (2) |
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7.4 Some unirationality constructions |
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105 | (4) |
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109 | (2) |
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Chapter 8 Weil Restriction and Algebraic Tori |
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111 | (16) |
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111 | (4) |
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115 | (2) |
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8.3 Algebraic tori and Galois modules |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (1) |
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8.5 Chatelet surfaces and stably permutation modules |
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120 | (5) |
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125 | (2) |
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Chapter 9 Example of a Non-rational Stably Rational Variety |
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127 | (10) |
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9.1 Plan of the construction |
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127 | (1) |
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9.2 The fields K, k', and K' |
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128 | (1) |
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9.3 Non-rational conic bundle |
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129 | (1) |
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9.4 Rational intersection of two quadrics |
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130 | (4) |
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9.5 Stable birational equivalence between X and V |
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134 | (2) |
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9.6 One more construction of stable rationality |
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136 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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Part IV The Hasse principle and its failure |
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137 | (22) |
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Chapter 10 Minkowski-Hasse Theorem |
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139 | (8) |
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139 | (1) |
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10.2 Quadrics over local fields |
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140 | (2) |
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10.3 Reduction to the case dim(Q) = 1 |
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142 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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10.5 Other examples of the Hasse principle |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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Chapter 11 Brauer-Manin Obstruction |
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147 | (12) |
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11.1 Definition of the Brauer-Manin obstruction |
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147 | (2) |
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11.2 Computation of the Brauer Manin obstruction |
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149 | (5) |
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11.3 Brauer-Manin obstruction for a genus-one curve |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (2) |
Appendix A Etale Cohomology |
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159 | (8) |
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159 | (1) |
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A.2 Sheaves in the etale topology |
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159 | (1) |
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A.3 Cohomology of etale sheaves of abelian groups |
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160 | (1) |
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A.4 First etale cohomology with non-abelian coefficients |
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161 | (1) |
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162 | (2) |
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164 | (1) |
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A.7 The case of a complex algebraic variety |
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164 | (3) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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