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Brauer groups for commutative $S$-algebras (1005.5370v3)
Published 28 May 2010 in math.AT, math.AG, and math.RA
Abstract: We investigate a notion of Azumaya algebras in the context of structured ring spectra and give a definition of Brauer groups. We investigate their Galois theoretic properties, and discuss examples of Azumaya algebras arising from Galois descent and cyclic algebras. We construct examples that are related to topological Hochschild cohomology of group ring spectra and we present a K(n)-local variant of the notion of Brauer groups.