Questions tagged [torsors]
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Zariski vs etale torsors over abelian varieties
Question. Let $A$ be an abelian variety (say, over the complex numbers), $G$ an algebraic group, $c$ a class in $H^1_{\rm et}(A, G)$. Denote the multiplication by $N$ map on A by $m_N:A\to A$. Does ...
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Torsors for discrete groups in the etale topology
Let $S$ be a smooth variety over $\mathbb C$ or a smooth quasi-projective integral scheme over Spec $\mathbb{Z}$.
Let $G$ be an (abstract) discrete group. For instance, $G =\mathbb{Z}^n$ or $G$ a ...
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Does an abelian-scheme-torsor with split generic fiber necessarily split?
Let $k$ be a field. Let $S$ be a smooth $k$-variety, let $G/S$ be an abelian scheme. Let $T/S$ be a $G$-torsor. Suppose the generic fiber of $T/S$ admits a section, does $T$ necessarily admits an $S$-...
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Extra line bundles from torsors
Another math.stackexchange question (here: $\mathbb{G}_m$-torsors and line bundles) goes over a way to construct a line bundle $L$ from a $\mathbb{G}_m$-torsor $T \to B$, by using a decomposition $\...
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Non Zariski-locally trivial $\mathbb{G}_{\mathrm{a}}$-torsor?
The question is pretty much as in the title: are there $\mathbb{G}_\mathrm{a}$-torsors $\pi:P\to X$ for some Grothendieck topology finer than the Zariski one, over a complex algebraic variety $X$ , ...
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Universal vectorial bi-extension as a scheme
In 'The universal vectorial Bi-extension and p-adic heights' Coleman works with the pullback of the Poincaré biextension of an abelian variety A to its universal vectorial extension and claims this is ...
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Questions about the algebraic space $\mathbb{A}^1/\mathbb{Z}$
Let $X = \mathbb{A}^1_{\mathbb{C}}/\mathbb{Z}$, where $\mathbb{Z}$ acts on $\mathbb{A}^1$ via translation. [To clarify, $X$ is an \'etale sheaf with a smooth presentation $\mathbb{A}^1_{\mathbb{C}}\to ...
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Contracted product of torsors
Given a group $G$ and a left $G$-set $X$, then we can make $X$ a right $G$-set defining the action as $xg:=g^{-1}x$ , or if you prefer we are considering the opposite group $G^{op}$ to make the left ...
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Pushforward of functions on a frame bundle
Apologies in advance for the long setup and question.
Let $L \to X$ be a line bundle. We may take its frame bundle $p \colon Fr(L) \to X$, a $\mathbb{G}_m$-torsor. We have
$$ p_*\mathcal{O}_{Fr(L)} =...
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Torsors for nonabelian groups and maps to contracted products
$\newcommand\op{\mathrm{op}}$My question concerns torsors for a sheaf of groups $G$ that is not commutative, and left/right are messing me up. A left $G$-torsor is equivalent to a right $G^{\op}$-...
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lie algebra bundle and underlying vector bundle
Let $G$ be a connected reductive group over a field $k$. Let $E$ be a $G$-bundle, then we can form the adjoint bundle $ad(E)$ which is a Lie algebra bundle over $k$.
As a vector bundle it is trivial, ...
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Representabillity of torsors and exact sequence of group schemes
I've seen the following property used at many places, I don't exactly why it is true.
Let $S$ be a site with an initial object $e$. There is an exact sequence of group objects
$$1 \to F \to G \to H \...
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Characterization of torsors which are locally trivial in terms of descent
Let $\mathsf C$ be a category and $G$ an internal group. Suppose $\mathsf C$ is finitely complete, so that $\pi_2:G\times B\to B$ is an internal group in $\mathsf C_{/B}$ for every $B$. A $G$-bundle ...
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Killing a Brauer class by a flat projective morphism
Let $X$ be a Noetherian scheme and $\beta \in H^2(X, \mathbb{G}_m)$ that is the image of some $\alpha \in H^1(X, \mathrm{PGL}_{n + 1})$ for some $n \ge 0$, so $\beta$ is a class in the Brauer group of ...
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Rational points of torsors over a separable closure
I already asked this question on Math Stack few days ago ( torsors over a separable closure ), but did not receive any answer, so I post it here.
Let $G$ be a smooth linear algebraic group defined ...
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