%0 Journal Article
%T Twisted forms of toric varieties
%A Alexander Duncan
%J Mathematics
%D 2014
%I arXiv
%X We consider the set of forms of a toric variety over an arbitrary field: those varieties which become isomorphic over a field extension. In contrast to most previous work, we do not necessarily fix a specific torus or its action in advance. We define an injective map from the set of forms of a toric variety to a non-abelian second cohomology set, which generalizes the usual Brauer class of a Severi-Brauer variety. Additionally, we define a map from the set of forms of a toric variety to the set of forms of a separable algebra along similar lines to a construction of A. Merkurjev and I. Panin. This generalizes both a result of M. Blunk for del Pezzo surfaces of degree 6, and the standard bijection between Severi-Brauer varieties and central simple algebras.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4039v1