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Cohomological invariants of root stacks and admissible double coverings

Part of: (Co)homology theory Cycles and subschemes Curves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 November 2021

Andrea Di Lorenzo  and
Roberto Pirisi Open the ORCID record for Roberto Pirisi [Opens in a new window]
Andrea Di Lorenzo
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
Roberto Pirisi*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
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e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We give a formula for the cohomological invariants of a root stack, which we apply to compute the cohomological invariants and the Brauer group of the compactification of the stacks of hyperelliptic curves given by admissible double coverings.

Keywords

Cohomological invariantsroot stackshyperelliptic curvesadmissible coverings

MSC classification

Primary: 14F22: Brauer groups of schemes
Secondary: 14H10: Families, moduli (algebraic) 14C15: (Equivariant) Chow groups and rings; motives
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 75 , Issue 1 , February 2023 , pp. 202 - 224
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