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Classifying spaces for étale algebras with generators
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2020
Abstract
We construct a scheme
$B(r; {\mathbb {A}}^n)$
such that a map
$X \to B(r; {\mathbb {A}}^n)$
corresponds to a degree-n étale algebra on X equipped with r generating global sections. We then show that when
$n=2$
, i.e., in the quadratic étale case, the singular cohomology of
$B(r; {\mathbb {A}}^n)({\mathbb {R}})$
can be used to reconstruct a famous example of S. Chase and to extend its application to showing that there is a smooth affine
$r-1$
-dimensional
${\mathbb {R}}$
-variety on which there are étale algebras
${\mathcal {A}}_n$
of arbitrary degrees n that cannot be generated by fewer than r elements. This shows that in the étale algebra case, a bound established by U. First and Z. Reichstein in [6] is sharp.
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The first author was partially supported by a graduate fellowship from the Science and Engineering Research Board, India. The second author was partially supported by an NSERC discovery grant.
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