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    Azumaya Objects in Triangulated Bicategories

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    We introduce the notion of Azumaya object in general homotopy-theoretic settings. We give a self-contained account of Azumaya objects and Brauer groups in bicategorical contexts, generalizing the Brauer group of a commutative ring. We go on to describe triangulated bicategories and prove a characterization theorem for Azumaya objects therein. This theory applies to give a homotopical Brauer group for derived categories of rings and ring spectra. We show that the homotopical Brauer group of an Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum is isomorphic to the homotopical Brauer group of its underlying commutative ring. We also discuss tilting theory as an application of invertibility in triangulated bicategories.Comment: 23 pages; final version; to appear in Journal of Homotopy and Related Structure

    Noncommutative motives of Azumaya algebras

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    Let k be a base commutative ring, R a commutative ring of coefficients, X a quasi-compact quasi-separated k-scheme, A a sheaf of Azumaya algebras over X of rank r, and Hmo(R) the category of noncommutative motives with R-coefficients. Assume that 1/r belongs to R. Under this assumption, we prove that the noncommutative motives with R-coefficients of X and A are isomorphic. As an application, we show that all the R-linear additive invariants of X and A are exactly the same. Examples include (nonconnective) algebraic K-theory, cyclic homology (and all its variants), topological Hochschild homology, etc. Making use of these isomorphisms, we then computer the R-linear additive invariants of differential operators in positive characteristic, of cubic fourfolds containing a plane, of Severi-Brauer varieties, of Clifford algebras, of quadrics, and of finite dimensional k-algebras of finite global dimension. Along the way we establish two results of independent interest. The first one asserts that every element of the Grothendieck group of X which has rank r becomes invertible in the R-linearized Grothendieck group, and the second one that every additive invariant of finite dimensional algebras of finite global dimension is unaffected under nilpotent extensions.Comment: 22 pages; revised versio

    Topological Hochschild cohomology and generalized Morita equivalence

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    We explore two constructions in homotopy category with algebraic precursors in the theory of noncommutative rings and homological algebra, namely the Hochschild cohomology of ring spectra and Morita theory. The present paper provides an extension of the algebraic theory to include the case when MM is not necessarily a progenerator. Our approach is complementary to recent work of Dwyer and Greenlees and of Schwede and Shipley. A central notion of noncommutative ring theory related to Morita equivalence is that of central separable or Azumaya algebras. For such an Azumaya algebra A, its Hochschild cohomology HH^*(A,A) is concentrated in degree 0 and is equal to the center of A. We introduce a notion of topological Azumaya algebra and show that in the case when the ground S-algebra R is an Eilenberg-Mac Lane spectrum of a commutative ring this notion specializes to classical Azumaya algebras. A canonical example of a topological Azumaya R-algebra is the endomorphism R-algebra F_R(M,M) of a finite cell R-module. We show that the spectrum of mod 2 topological K-theory KU/2 is a nontrivial topological Azumaya algebra over the 2-adic completion of the K-theory spectrum widehat{KU}_2. This leads to the determination of THH(KU/2,KU/2), the topological Hochschild cohomology of KU/2. As far as we know this is the first calculation of THH(A,A) for a noncommutative S-algebra A.Comment: Published by Algebraic and Geometric Topology at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/agt/AGTVol4/agt-4-29.abs.htm

    Structure theorems of H4-Azumaya algebras

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    AbstractLet k be a field and H4 be Sweedler's 4-dimensional algebra over k. It is well known that H4 has a family of triangular structures Rt indexed by the ground field k and each triangular structure Rt makes the H4-module category MH4 a braided monoidal category, denoted MRtH4. In this paper, we study the Azumaya algebras in the categories MRtH4. We obtain the structure theorems for Azumaya algebras in each braided monoidal category MRtH4, t∈k. Utilizing the structure theorems we obtain a scalar invariant for each Azumaya algebra in the aforementioned categories
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