Amitsur's birationality conjecture for Severi–Brauer varieties
Amitsur's birationality conjecture for Severi–Brauer varieties
Let be a field, and let and be central simple algebras over . Write and for their associated Severi–Brauer varieties, and let and denote their Brauer classes in the Brauer group . Amitsur's conjecture.
that is, the two Brauer classes generate the same cyclic subgroup of . 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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