On abelian birational sections

Details On abelian birational sections On abelian birational sections

2009-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/0902.1143v2

Mathematics

Algebraic Geometry

12 pages; added Remark 3.6; final version

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For a smooth and geometrically irreducible variety X over a field k, the quotient of the absolute Galois group G_{k(X)} by the commutator subgroup of G_{\bar k(X)} projects onto G_k. We investigate the sections of this projection. We show that such sections correspond to "infinite divisions" of the elementary obstruction of Colliot-Th\'el\`ene and Sansuc. If k is a number field and the Tate-Shafarevich group of the Picard variety of X is finite, then such sections exist if and only if the elementary obstruction vanishes. For curves this condition also amounts to the existence of divisors of degree 1. Finally we show that the vanishing of the elementary obstruction is not preserved by extensions of scalars.

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