Let be a smooth projective algebraic variety over . Then I think that someone (Serre?) showed that the Cohomological Etale Brauer Group agrees with the torsion part of the Analytic Brauer Group . This latter group is calculated in the classical (metric) topology on the associated complex manifold with the sheaf of nowhere vanishing holomorphic functions.
However there can easily be non-torsion elements in : for instance consider the image in .
Could there be a topology more refined than etale but defined algebraically which can see these non-torsion classes? Notice that one can also ask the question for any . For the Zariski and etale work fine.
Why do things break down for ?
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