Brauer Groups, Hopf Algebras and Galois Theory

This volume is devoted to the Brauer group of a commutative ring and related invariants. Part one presents a self-contained exposition of the Brauer group of a commutative ring. Included is a systematic development of the theory of Grothendieck topologies and etale cohomology, and discussion of topics such as Gabber's theorem and the theory of Taylor's big Brauer group of algebras without a unit. Part two presents a systematic development of the Galois theory of Hopf algebras with special emphasis on the group of Galois objects of a cocommutative Hopf algebra. The development of the theory is carried out in such a way that the connection to the theory of the Brauer group in part one is made clear. Recent developments are considered and examples are included. The Brauer-Long group of a Hopf algebra over a commutative ring is discussed in part three. This provides a link between the first two parts of the volume and is the first time this topic has been discussed in a monograph.