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Grothendieck-Teichmüller conjecture

(1) In "Esquisse d'un programme", Grothendieck conjectures Grothendieck-Teichmüller conjecture: the morphism $$ G_{\mathbb{Q}} \longrightarrow Aut(\widehat{T}) $$ is an isomorphism. Here $...
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Are we better in computing integrals than mathematicians of 19th century?

When I started to learn mathematics, I was fascinating by legendary «Демидович»: problems in mathematical analysis. Fifteen years later, when I open chapters about integrals, I see a long list of ...
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Stack of Tannakian categories? Galois descent?

I'm having trouble finding a reference for something that I'm guessing the experts worked out long ago. Let's take a local or global field $F$ for this post, and fix a separable algebraic closure $\...
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Number field analog of Artin-Tate $\Rightarrow$ BSD?

What is the difference between the alternating product of the Hasse-Weil $L$-functions of the generic fiber of an arithmetic scheme $X\to\text{Spec}(\mathbf{Z})$ and the zeta function of $X$? (each ...
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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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Use of derivators to the theory of motives?

This is a rather imprecise question but i think this could become a interesting pool of ideas and comments. The theory of motives has evolved to a complex field of research the moment Voevodsky (and ...
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What are "fractional motives"?

Kirti Joshi's musings mention "fractional motives". Do you know what are they good for and what the current state of constructions is for them? Edit: Further cases of "fractional motives" as ...
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What is the precise definition of "Hypergeometric motives over $\mathbb{Q}$"?

The question is as in the title, but here is some background: Section 4 of this paper by Beukers, Cohen and Mellit is called "Hypergeometric motive over $\mathbb{Q}$" but no actual (pure) ...
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Geometric vs combinatorial motives over Spec Z

Consider the category of reduced schemes of finite type over $\mathbb{Z}$. Take the Grothendieck group of this category, i.e. the free abelian group on isomorphism classes, modulo the usual "syzygy" ...
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Uncountably many non-isomorphic Tate modules

Do there exist uncountably many abelian surfaces with good reduction over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with pairwise non-isomorphic rational $p$-adic Tate modules? If we took $l$-adic Tate modules there would be ...
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Would full resolution of singularities have cohomological implications beyond the alteration theory?

De Jong's result on alterations allows one to show the potential semistability of certain Galois representations arising from cohomology of varieties (among other things). If we knew the existence of ...
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Which field extensions do not affect Chow groups?

Let $X$ be a (say, smooth projective) variety over a field $k$. For which $K$ it is known that the ("ordinary", that is, not higher) Chow groups of $X$ map onto that of $X_K$ bijectively? ...
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Searching for hypergeometric motives that split

Motivation: It seems that the splitting of a hypergeometric motive is closely related to some highly non-trivial hypergeometric identities discovered by Ramanujan, Guillera et al. The splitting of ...
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Beilinson regulators and Bloch's mythological algebraic intermediate Jacobians

In the paper introducing his motivic cycle complexes, Bloch outlines a project he says he was going to return to in the future: Towards the end of page 270, he says, given a smooth projective variety ...
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Motivic Galois theory and Betti realizations?

Why Motivic Galois groups are defined with Betti realizations? (In fact Absolute Galois groups can be defined in this way (with Betti realizations), why they are so related?).
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Motivic fundamental group of the moduli space of curves?

Suppose I have a smooth projective family of varieties of varieties over $\mathcal M_g$ - i.e. a universal functor, commuting with deformations, from curves to smooth projective varieties. Can I ...
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Triple comparison of cohomology in algebraic geometry

Let $X$ be a smooth proper variety over $\mathbb{Q}$ and $p$ a prime number. For an integer $k$, we have: a finitely-generated abelian group $H^k(X^{\mathrm{an}}(\mathbb{C});\mathbb{Z})$ a finitely-...
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Has Grothendieck's motivic vision been realised?

Apparently (https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1635057392814821376) Bing's AI search thinks that "the full theory of motives remains elusive". My impression was that the current ...
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Values of cohomology theory on a point

$\DeclareMathOperator\Sm{Sm}$It is a well-known fact that in algebraic topology, generalized cohomology theories are determined by their values on the point. I was wondering whether anything similar ...
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Reference request: Motivic Cohomology and Cycle class maps

For a smooth projective variety $X$ over any field $K$, Voevodsky showed in his paper ``Motivic Cohomology Groups Are Isomorphic to Higher Chow Groups in Any Characteristic" that the motivic ...
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A Generalization of the Tate-Shafarevich/Tate/Fontaine-Mazur Conjectures

Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a number field $k$. The Tate-Shafarevich conjecture says that the Tate-Shafarevich group of $A$ is finite. A weakening of this conjecture states that the $\ell$-...
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Can the failure of the multiplicativity of archimedean L-factors be corrected?

My question is parallel to J. Borger' question: Can the failure of the multiplicativity of Euler factors at bad primes be corrected? As emphasized by Scholbach in his paper on special values of L-...
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Corresponding notion of unramified for motives (or de Rham cohomology)

The etale cohomolgoy of a variety $X$ over a number field $K$ is a Galois representation of $\mathrm{Gal}(\overline K/K)$ with some properties coming from $X$, e.g., it is unramified outside $S$ if $X$...
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Roadmap to study (Deligne) Algebraic geometry over Tannakian categories

I would like to know the way to proceed in the first lecture of Deligne's Le groupe fondamental de la droite projective moins trois points. General advices for reading Deligne's paper. What should I ...
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Quadratic twists of 1-motives

Quadratic twists of elliptic curves (or, more generally, abelian varieties) are familiar objects in arithmetic geometry. I would like to extend that definition to the category of 1-motives over global ...
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Any counterexamples known for the Generalized Tate conjecture?

One can state the generalized Tate conjecture over arbitrary finitely generated fields; to this end one should just define Galois representation to be effective if the eignevalues of the actions of ...
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Integral decomposition of the diagonal (Chow motives)

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero and let $X$ be a smooth proper varity over $k$ of dimension $d$. The Künneth standard conjecture conjectures that there exist projectors $e_0, e_1, \ldots, ...
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Rank $2$ motivic local systems on a curve

This question is about the article "Motivic local systems on curves and Maeda's conjecture" by Yeuk Hay Joshua Lam. In the proof of Theorem 1.1 it is claimed (on lines 4-5 of p. 7) that any ...
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Motives in tropical geometry

Is there a notion of motives in tropical geometry? Similar like the notion introduced by Grothendieck in algebraic geometry.
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Cohomology theories for algebraic varieties over number fields

There is a standard line which is repeated by anyone writing/talking about motives and cohomology of algebraic varieties over number fields: namely, there are many such cohomologies and then the ...
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Current state of Serre's Motives conjectures in Seattle

It would be worth if we have a current state of the conjectures of Propriétés conjecturales des groupes de Galois motiviques et des représentations l-adiques. J P Serre. In Motives, Seattle And ...
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Hodge Realisation of Mixed Tate Motives

For a field $k$ which satisfies Beilinson-Soule vanishing conjecture, the from Levine's paper, https://www.uni-due.de/~bm0032/publ/TateMotives.pdf There exists an abelian category of mixed Tate ...
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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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Correspondences of schemes induced by a finite Galois extension

I am trying to do the first exercises of the Mazza-Voevodsky-Weibel book Lecture Notes on Motivic Cohomology, which are some elementary results about correspondences between schemes. Recall that if $...
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Are Tate twists of t-positive motives positive with respect to the Voevodsky's homotopy t-structure?

Let $X$ be a Voevodsky's motif (over a perfect field) that belongs to the positive part of the homotopy $t$-structure (i.e. its cohomology as an object of $D^-(ShSmCor)$ is zero in negative degrees). ...
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Can a Chow motif be isomorphic to its own direct summand?

Let $M$ be a $R$-linear Chow motif over a field $k$ that is perfect but not necessarily algebraically closed. Can one prove that $M$ is not a direct summand of itself (that is, $M\not\cong M\bigoplus ...
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What is the motive of $\operatorname{Bun}_G(X)$?

$\DeclareMathOperator\Bun{Bun}$Let $X$ be a scheme over algebraically closed field $k$, $G$ a reductive group and $\Bun_G(X)$ the stack of $G$ bundles on $X$. Write $[\Bun_G(X)]\in K_\text{st}$ for ...
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Reference request: Tate's conjecture for L functions of motives

What's a good reference for the most general form of Tate's conjecture for the order of poles of the L function of a motive? Thanks!
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Vector bundles vs algebraic cycles

For integral schemes, the Picard group is isomorphic to the group of Cartier divisors modulo linear equivalence. What is the correct analog of this isomorphism, for higher codimension Chow groups vs ...
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Poincaré duality for motivic cohomology

Is Poincaré duality for étale motivic cohomology known for projective regular (not necessarily smooth, just regular) schemes over Dedekind rings? More precisely, two questions. Let $f: \mathcal{X}\to\...
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What is the algebro-geometric or measure-theoretic "content" of Dhillon and Mináč's motivic Artin symbols over an arbitrary ground field?

1. Short version. In this text, Dhillon and Mináč define motivic Artin symbols. Having fixed a ground field $k$ and a smooth projective curve $Y$ over $k$ equipped with the action of a finite group $G$...
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Polynomially countable varieties and virtual mixed Tate motives

Let $K_0(Var_k)$ be the Grothendieck ring of $k$-varieties for a field $k$. Let $\mathbb{L}$ denote the class of the affine line over $k$. Let $S$ be a $k$-variety and $[S] \in \mathbb{Z}[\mathbb{L}]$,...
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Hyperplane sections of principal homogeneous spaces

Let $P_i$ denote the $i$-th vertex in the Dynkin diagramm of an algebraic group. It symbolizes a parabolic subgroup of $G$ corresponding to the other vertices, meaning $G/P_i$ is a smooth, projective, ...
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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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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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Voevodsky's motives and Deligne's systems of realizations

$\newcommand{\gm}{\mathrm{gm}}$Let $\mathbf{DM}_{\gm}(\mathbb{Q},\mathbb{Z})$ be Voevodsky's category of geometric motives over $\mathbb{Q}$ with coefficients in $\mathbb{Z}$ (e.g. as on p.124 of ...
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Generate periods only by smooth varieties

Like explained in this passage that a period is a complex number whose real and imaginary parts are integrations of rational functions over $\mathbb{Q}$ on some $\mathbb{Q}$-semi-algebra set in $\...
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Deligne's letter to Soulé from 1985

There is a famous letter of Deligne to C. Soulé in which, apparently, Deligne first formulated the conjecture on the existence of an abelian category of mixed motives, extending Grothendieck's pure ...
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Algorithmically recover the $l'$-adic Galois representation from the $l$-adic one (assuming the Tate conjecture)

Let $E$ be a number field. For any finite Galois extension $E\subset F$ there is a continuous homomorphism $\pi_F:\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{E}/E)\to \mathrm{Gal}(F/E)$. Let $X$ be a smooth projective ...
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Explicit linear object underlying $l$-adic cohomology for almost all $l$

If you are working with closed manifolds you can consider cohomology with any coefficients you like but ultimately everything is determined by the singular cohomology with $\mathbb{Z}$-coefficients. ...
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