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What would a "moral" proof of the Weil Conjectures require?
At the very end of this 2006 interview (rm), Kontsevich says
"...many great theorems are originally proven but I think the proofs are not, kind of, "morally right." There should be better proofs......
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Understanding the definition of the Lefschetz (pure effective) motive
For all those who are unlikely to have answers to my questions, I provide some
Background:
In some sense, pure motives are generalisations of smooth projective varieties. Every Weil cohomology ...
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difference between equivalence relations on algebraic cycles
For the definitions of the equivalence relations on algebraic cycles see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adequate_equivalence_relation.
I want to know how far away from each other the equivalence ...
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Is the scalar extension functor for Chow motives conservative?
Denote $CHM(F)$ to be the category of Chow motives over a field $F$.
Let's consider an algebraic exension $E/F$, then
there is a natural extension of scalars functor $CHM(F) \to CHM(E)$.
I was ...
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What is the field with one element?
I've heard of this many times, but I don't know anything about it.
What I do know is that it is supposed to solve the problem of the fact that the final object in the category of schemes is one-...
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ubiquitous quantum cohomology
Manin stressed that every projective scheme should have a quantum-cohomology structure. I'd like to know more about that. And since the varieties considered in texts about monodromy resp. vanishing ...
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What's the "Yoga of Motives"?
There are some things about geometry that show why a motivic viewpoint is deep and important. A good indication is that Grothendieck and others had to invent some important and new algebraico-...
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Solving "a, b, a+b have given divisors" problem
I've read an interesting article, math.NT/0409456 where you're just trying to solve a simple problem:
For a given (finite) set of primes S find all solutions to an equation ...
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Spectrum of the Grothendieck ring of varieties
Here's a problem that may ultimately require just simple algebraic-geometry skills to be solved, or perhaps it's very deep and will never be solved at all. From the comments, some literature and my ...
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