Timeline for What is "restriction of scalars" for a torus?
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| Jan 16, 2010 at 4:33 | comment | added | Emerton | I think Evgeny's example is a good one to keep in mind. (As Pete Clark wrote in his answer, restriction of scalars is just the process of thinking of a ${\mathbb C}$-variety, say, as an ${\mathbb R}$-variety instead.) | |
| Dec 29, 2009 at 5:15 | comment | added | Evgeny Shinder | As other people commented, for a definition and properties you could check out wikipedia first. I gave you an example. And I do believe that this kind of stuff is easy. | |
| Dec 5, 2009 at 21:36 | comment | added | user2292 | Giving the points over one field of a torus doesn't even begin to describe it. the comment "it's not hard at all" is useless and patronising. | |
| Dec 4, 2009 at 6:15 | history | answered | Evgeny Shinder | CC BY-SA 2.5 |