The group scheme G\_a here is the one-dimensional additive group.



Over which schemes can there exist non-trivial G_a bundles?
Principal Ga-bundles on a scheme X, in any of the Zariski, etale, or flat topologies, are classified by the coherent cohomology group H^1(X,OX). For a smooth complex projective variety, this is the antiholomorphic component of the de Rham group H^1(X,C), which is a topological invariant. So (in this smooth Kahler setting) the existence of nontrivial Ga-bundles depends only on the topological type of X.


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