Toric Varieties and Severi-Brauer Varieties
Speaker:
Alex Duncan, University of Michigan
Date and Time:
Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 4:40pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
A Severi-Brauer variety is a twisted form of projective space. I consider twisted forms of toric varieties as a natural generalization of Severi-Brauer varieties and discuss how many wellknown structural results have extensions to this more general setting. The main tool is a description of the automorphisms of the Cox ring of a toric variety (a notion closely related to universal torsors).