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The purpose of this note is to characterize fields of strict cohomological dimension two in terms of Brauer groups.
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Opolka, H. Cyclotomic splitting fields and strict cohomological dimension. Israel J. Math. 52, 225–230 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02786517
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