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Who proved the motivic 6-functor formalism?
In the recent beautiful talk "Motives and ring stacks" Peter Scholze states the theorem saying that there exists an initial 6-functor formalism on $\mathit{Sch}_\mathbb{Z}$ such that
when $...
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Removing quasi-projective assumption in the formalism of four operations
In Ayoub's thesis, Les six opérations de Grothendieck et le formalisme des cycles évanescents dans le monde motivique (I), Ayoub proved that given a stable homotopical $2$-functor (Definition 1.4.1) $\...
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Direct images commute with homotopy colimits
In Les six opérations de Grothendieck et le formalisme des cycles évanescents dans le monde motivique (II), Ayoub defined the notion of a stable homotopical algebraic derivators; roughly, for a ...
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In which "sense" unramified Milnor-Witt K-groups are unramified
Let $X$ be an integral locally noetherian smooth
scheme over base field $k$. Then for every $x \in X^{(1)}$ point of codimension $1$, the stalk $\mathcal{O}_{X,x}$ is a discrete valuation
ring. ...
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Functoriality conjectures on the slice filtration
Voevodsky wrote on his paper "Open Problems in the Motivic Stable Homotopy Theory, I" that
Three other groups of conjectures in motivic homotopy theory, not included in to this paper, seem ...
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Stable $\infty$-category of motives
In nLab motive, it defines the derived category of motives as the full sub-$\infty$-category of the $\infty$-category of functors $\mathop{\mathrm{Fun}}(\mathrm{Cor}_k^{\mathrm{op}}, \mathcal S)$ ...
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Non-examples of mixed Tate motives
I was trying to find examples of schemes (preferably smooth) over $\mathbb{C}$ which have motives that aren't mixed Tate. I wasn't able to come up with anything or find an argument that's been written ...
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What's motivic about $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy theory? What's motivic about correspondences?
I come today to mathoverflow to showcase some genuine confusion about the motivic world. I want to ask some questions before actually starting to study the subject, to build some sense of direction.
I ...
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A question about the vanishing of motivic cohomology in negative Tate twist
Let $DM_{\text{gm}}$ be the category of Voevodsky´s geometric motives. Let $p,q\in \mathbb{Z}$ be integers with $p<0$.
Is it true that
$$\text{Hom}_{DM_{\text{gm}}}(M_{\text{gm}}(X),\mathbb{Z}(p)[...
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What is the best reference for motives?
I want to learn about homotopy theory on number fields, and I heard that the theory of motives made it possible, so I want to know what is a good textbook for motive theory.
To be honest, I don’t ...
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Blowup formula for motivic cohomology
If $X$ is a smooth projective variety over a field, $Z\subset X$ a smooth closed subvariety of codimension $d$, $X'\to X$ the blowup of $X$ along $Z$, there's the blowup formula
$$H^j(X'_{et},\mathbf{...
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Reference for Nori motives
I would like to study Nori motives and I am a complete outsider of the subject. I do, however, have background on Chow motives, Voevodsky motives $\mathrm{DM}$ and his stable homotopy category $\...
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Why do motivic stacks make sense?
In the paper "Motivic model categories and motivic derived algebraic geometry", Yuki Kato, whose email-address I sadly couldn't find out, describes a procedure to "motivy" the objects of any $(\infty,...
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Effectivity and Lower Shriek for Voevodsky Motives
I am in a situation where I need a result of the following form. Suppose $X$ is a smooth $k$-variety, $U$ is a dense open subvariety with complement $Z$ a smooth divisor. Let $\pi^X:X\rightarrow\text{...
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Voevodsky's counterexample to the existence of a motivic t-structure
I have been trying to unravel some of the known relationships between various ideas on mixed motives. I find the literature quite hard to follow -"from experts, for experts".
Voevodsky in "...
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Connecting Quillen functors between motivic homotopy categories (of different "types"): references?
For a perfect base field $k$ there exists the following collection of "motivic homotopy" categories related to it:
(a) the homotopy category of simplicial presheaves (from smooth $k$-varieties); here ...
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Dualizability and motivic cohomology
Suppose $k$ is an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p$. Let $A=\mathbb{Z}/\ell\mathbb{Z}$, $\ell$ a prime coprime to $p$. Denote by $MA$ the motivic Eilenberg-Maclane spectrum over $k$. Is ...
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Voevodsky's Triangulated Categories of Motives and their Relationships
As we know, Voevodsky constructed several candidates for the triangulated category of motives using different constructions and topologies (h, qfh, etale, and Nisnevich).
I would like to know what ...
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What are Motivic homotopy types?
There are suggestions that says that Grothendieck developed (in some sense) a theory of Motivic homotopy types or at least named it.
I would like to know the reference in which Grothendieck did it, ...
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What is missing in the current constructions of pure and mixed motives?
Yo! Maybe this question is too broad, so maybe it should be community wiki? In summary, I want to known all the known comparisons between all the constructions of pure and mixed motives and what make ...
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Applications of homotopy purity theorem of Morel-Voevodsky
One of the most important theorems in motivic homotopy theory is the homotopy purity theorem of Morel-Voevodsky which says that the motivic Thom space of the normal bundle $\mathcal N_{Z/X}$ of a ...
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The vanishing of $MGL^{2n+i,n}(X)$; do spectra of smooth projective varieties generate $SH_{l}$?
I have two questions related to the stable motivic homotopy categories of Morel-Voevodsky. The first is probably simple; I wonder what is known on the second one.
For the algebraic cobordism theory $...
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$T$-stable vs. $S^1$-stable motivic homotopy category: which sorts of transfers are available?
I would like to have some sort of transfers in motivic stable homotopy categories in order to adapt Voevodsky's split standard triple argument to cohomology theories that can be factorized through ...
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Two questions on motivic homotopy theory
I am a beginner in motivic homotopy theory and motivic cohomology and have just begun reading books by Dundas et al. and Mazza-Voevodsky-Weibel. I have two basic questions:
Why is the question of $\...
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Reasons for the use of Nisnevich topology in motivic homotopy theory
The objects of interest in motivic homotopy theory are "spaces"-which are simplicial sheaves of sets on the big Nisnevich site $Sm/k$ of smooth schemes of finite type over a field $k$. I understand ...
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Nice references for injective model structures and Quillen functors between motivic homotopy categories
It seems that for the injective model structures for the categories simplicial presheaves and simplicial Nisnevich sheaves (on the category of smooth varieties over a perfect field $k$) there exist ...
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Ring structure for the motivic spectrum/complex that represents singular cohomology?
As the discussion here Is singular cohomology representable by a (Voevodsky's) motivic complex?
shows, the singular cohomology of (smooth) complex varieties is represented by a motivic complex (...
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