Title :

Normality of algebras over commutative rings and the Teichmüller class. II.

Author(s) :

Huebschmann, Johannes [Auteur]
Laboratoire Paul Painlevé - UMR 8524 [LPP]

Journal title :

Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures

Pages :

71-125

Publisher :

Springer

Publication date :

2017-07-26

ISSN :

2193-8407

English keyword(s) :

Teichmueller cocycle
crossed module
crossed pair
normal algebra
crossed product
Deuring embedding problem
group cohomology
Galois theory of commutative rings
Azumaya algebra
Brauer group
Galois cohomology
non-commutative Galois theory
non-abelian cohomology

HAL domain(s) :

Mathématiques [math]

English abstract : [en]

Let S be a commutative ring, Q a group that acts on S, and let R be the subring of S fixed under Q. A Q-normal S-algebra consists of a central S-algebra A and a homomorphism s from Q to the group Out(A) of outer automorphisms ...
Show more >Let S be a commutative ring, Q a group that acts on S, and let R be the subring of S fixed under Q. A Q-normal S-algebra consists of a central S-algebra A and a homomorphism s from Q to the group Out(A) of outer automorphisms of A that lifts the Q-action on S. We associate to a Q-normal S-algebra (A,s) a crossed 2-fold extension which, in turn, represents a class, the Teichmueller class of (A,s), in the third cohomology group of Q with coefficients in the group U(S) of units of S, endowed with the obvious Q-module structure. Suitable equivalence classes of Q-normal Azumaya S-algebras constitute an abelian group XB(S,Q), the crossed Brauer group of S relative to the Q-action on S, and the classical results, suitably rephrased in terms of a generalized Teichmueller cocycle map defined on the abelian group XB(S,Q) and crucially involving crossed 2-fold extensions, extend to the more general situation. The Teichmueller cocycle map is even defined on the abelian group kRep(Q,B((S,Q))) of classes of representations of Q in the Q-graded Brauer category B((S,Q)) of S relative to the Q-action on S, and the obvious homomorphism from XB(S,Q) to kRep(Q,B((S))) is injective, an isomorphism when the image of Q in the group of automorphisms of S is a finite group. Furthermore, in that case, the equivariant and crossed Brauer groups fit into various exact sequences generalizing among others the corresponding low degree group cohomology five term exact sequence in the classical case over a field. Crossed pair algebras defined relative to a suitable notion of Q-equivariant Galois extension of commutative rings lead to a comparison of the theory with the appropriate group cohomology groups and with the corresponding abelian group of classes of crossed pairs defined relative to the data. A number of examples illustrating the theory are included.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Centre Européen pour les Mathématiques, la Physique et leurs Interactions

Collections :

• Laboratoire Paul Painlevé - UMR 8524

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