Abstract:
We prove Artin's conjecture on the finiteness of the Brauer group
for an arithmetic model of a hyperkähler variety $V$ over a number field
$k\hookrightarrow\mathbb C$ provided that $b_2(V\otimes_k\mathbb C)>3$.
We show that the Brauer group of an arithmetic model of a simply connected
Calabi–Yau variety over a number field is finite. We also prove that
if the $l$-adic Tate conjecture on divisors holds for a certain smooth
projective variety $V$ over a field $k$ of arbitrary characteristic
$\operatorname{char}(k)\ne l$, then the group
$\operatorname{Br}'(V\otimes_k k^{\mathrm{s}})^{\operatorname{Gal}(k^{\mathrm{s}}/k)}(l)$
is finite independently of the semisimplicity of the continuous $l$-adic
representation of the Galois group $\operatorname{Gal}(k^{\mathrm{s}}/k)$
on the space $H^2_{\text{\'et}}(V\otimes_kk^{\mathrm{s}},\mathbb Q_l(1))$.