
arXiv: math/0003229
Using Maruyama's theory of elementary transformations, I show that the Brauer group surjects onto the cohomological Brauer group for separated geometrically normal algebraic surfaces. As an application, I infer the existence of nonfree vector bundles on proper normal algebraic surfaces.
13 pages, major revision, to appear in Math. Ann
normal algebraic surfaces, Separable algebras (e.g., quaternion algebras, Azumaya algebras, etc.), cohomological Brauer group, Mathematics - Commutative Algebra, Commutative Algebra (math.AC), Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry, FOS: Mathematics, nonfree vector bundles, Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli, Algebraic Geometry (math.AG), Brauer groups of schemes, 13A20, 14J17,14J60, 16H05
normal algebraic surfaces, Separable algebras (e.g., quaternion algebras, Azumaya algebras, etc.), cohomological Brauer group, Mathematics - Commutative Algebra, Commutative Algebra (math.AC), Mathematics - Algebraic Geometry, FOS: Mathematics, nonfree vector bundles, Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli, Algebraic Geometry (math.AG), Brauer groups of schemes, 13A20, 14J17,14J60, 16H05
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