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1. Algebra and Number Theory

Cohomology with multilinear differentials and applications

Constantin-Nicolae Beli
Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Romania

Abstract:

The cohomology with multiliear differentials is defined same as the usual cohomology, but with the group of cocycles, which are given by the relation $da=0$, replaced by the larger group of those cochains $a$ such that $da$ is multilinear, i.e. linear in each variable. This notion allows us to produce an exact sequence involving the $2$-torsion of the Brauer group of a number field. With the help of this sequence, we define a function with many arithmetic properties, which is useful in the theory of the spinor genus of integral quadratic forms. In the case when $F=\mathbb Q$ our map is given in terms of Legendre symbols of the type $(a+b\sqrt m,p)$ and by using its properties we were able to recover all existing biquadratic reciprocity laws, as well as produce new ones.