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The Brauer group of a noncomplete real algebraic surface is calculated. The calculations make use of equivariant cohomology. The resulting formula is similar to the formula for a complete surface, but the proof is substantially different.
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Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 355–359, March, 2000.
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Krasnov, V.A. The Brauer group of a noncomplete real algebraic surface. Math Notes 67, 296–300 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02676665
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