Relative Brauer Groups and \'etale cohomology

Abstract

In this article, we construct a natural group homomorphism $$ \psi: \text{Br}(f)\to H^{1}_{et}(S, f_{*}\mathcal{O}_{X}^{\times}/\mathcal{O}_{S}^{\times})$$ for a faithful affine map $f: X \to S$ of noetherian schemes. Here $\text{Br}(f)$ denotes the relative Brauer group of $f.$ We also discuss the behavior of Brauer groups for a subintegral map. Furthermore, we prove a relative version of Kummer's exact sequence.