Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor

We give a general formula relating self cup products in cohomology to connecting maps in nonabelian cohomology, and apply it to obtain a formula for the self cup product associated to the Weil pairing.

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Main Authors: Poonen, Bjorn, Rains, Eric
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: International Press 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81276
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8593-2792
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spelling mit-1721.1/812762022-10-01T14:24:53Z Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor Poonen, Bjorn Rains, Eric Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics Poonen, Bjorn Poonen, Bjorn Rains, Eric We give a general formula relating self cup products in cohomology to connecting maps in nonabelian cohomology, and apply it to obtain a formula for the self cup product associated to the Weil pairing. National Science Foundation (U.S.) (grant DMS-0841321) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (DMS-1069236) 2013-10-02T21:41:26Z 2013-10-02T21:41:26Z 2011-11 2011-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 10732780 1945001X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81276 Poonen, Bjorn, and Eric Rains. “Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor.” Mathematical Research Letters 18, no. 6 (2011): 1305-1318. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8593-2792 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2011.v18.n6.a18 Mathematical Research Letters Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf International Press Prof. Poonen via Michael Noga
spellingShingle Poonen, Bjorn
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Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor
title Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor
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title_fullStr Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor
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title_short Self cup products and the theta characteristic torsor
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