Tate's symplecticity conjecture for the Brauer group of a surface

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Let XX be a smooth, proper, geometrically connected surface over a finite field of characteristic pp. Write

Br⁡(X):=\rH\et2(X;\Gm)\operatorname{Br}(X):=\rH^2_{\et}(X;\G_m)

for its Brauer group, let Br⁡(X)\nd\operatorname{Br}(X)_{\nd} be the quotient by the subgroup of divisible elements, and let the Milne--Artin--Tate pairing be the non-degenerate skew-symmetric pairing on Br⁡(X)\nd\operatorname{Br}(X)_{\nd} constructed using Artin--Tate and Milne's methods. Tate's symplecticity conjecture. The Milne--Artin--Tate pairing is alternating. This conjecture predicts that the pairing is symplectic and concerns the refinement of the Artin--Tate construction from skew-symmetry to alternation; its status is not specified in the supplied text.

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Tony Feng, “Steenrod operations and symplectic arithmetic duality”, arXiv:2602.15629 (2026).

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