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Publications and source records attributed to Mark Blunk.
In this paper we construct a tilting sheaf for Severi-Brauer Varieties and Involution Varieties. This sheaf relates the derived category of each variety to the derived category of modules over a ring whose semisimple component consists of the Tits algebras of the corresponding linear algebraic group.
Let $S$ be a degree six del Pezzo surface over an arbitrary field $F$. Motivated by the first author's classification of all such $S$ up to isomorphism in terms of a separable $F$-algebra $B \times Q \times F$, and by his K-theory isomorphism $K_n(S) \cong K_n(B \times Q \times F)$ for $n \ge 0$, we prove an equivalence of derived categories $$ \sD^b(\coh S) \equiv \sD^b(\mod A) $$ where $A$ is an explicitly given finite dimensional $F$-algebra whose semisimple part is $B \times Q \times F$. Submitted to the Journal of K-theory
We give a characterization of all del Pezzo surfaces of degree 6 over an arbitrary field $F$. A surface is determined by a pair of separable algebras. These algebras are used to compute the Quillen $K$-theory of the surface. As a consequence, we obtain an index reduction formula for the function field of the surface.