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Timeline for Motivation behind Fontaine's Theory

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Nov 29, 2019 at 8:16 vote accept user89236
Nov 27, 2019 at 13:50 answer added Olivier timeline score: 7
Nov 27, 2019 at 13:32 comment added Wojowu Not sure what exactly you mean with "Fontaine's theory", but for instance the motivation for the period rings is that we would like to have comparison theorems like those over $\mathbb C$. For various reasons $\mathbb C_p$ is not good enough for this purpose (since there is no $p$-adic $2\pi i$).
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Nov 27, 2019 at 11:16 history edited YCor CC BY-SA 4.0
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