Amitsur's birationality conjecture for Severi–Brauer varieties

Let FF be a field, and let AA and BB be central simple algebras over FF. Write SB(A)SB(A) and SB(B)SB(B) for their associated Severi–Brauer varieties, and let [A][A] and [B][B] denote their Brauer classes in the Brauer group Br(F)\operatorname{Br}(F). Amitsur's conjecture.

SB(A)SB(B)[A]=[B] in Br(F),SB(A)\sim SB(B)\quad\Longleftrightarrow\quad \langle[A]\rangle=\langle[B]\rangle\text{ in }\operatorname{Br}(F),

that is, the two Brauer classes generate the same cyclic subgroup of Br(F)\operatorname{Br}(F). The conjecture characterizes birational equivalence of Severi–Brauer varieties in terms of the cyclic subgroups generated by their Brauer classes. It remains open for central simple algebras of prime power index.

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Primary source

Divyasree C Ramachandran, “A geometric perspective on Amitsur's conjecture”, arXiv:2512.06360 (2025).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2002–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1006.3304, arXiv:0706.3447, arXiv:math/0206154, arXiv:math/0203117.

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