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Homotopy invariance of $\ell$-adic cohomology

In the end of the Voevodsky’s lectures on cross functors, P. Deligne considers a couple of axioms which define (using the vocabulary of Ayoub's thesis) a stable homotopical 2-functor. Among them, we ...
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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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Motives and topological data analysis

Here is some meta mathematics question. During the last decade there has been some progress in the field of applied maths, called topological data analysis. The setup starts with some set of points in ...
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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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Finiteness results in the category of schemes up to $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy

In algebraic geometry, we know that there exist geometrical conditions on a scheme $X/k$ for having finitely many rational points when $k$ is a number field. Namely for curves there is the Mordell ...
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Where is smoothness used in Voevodsky's homotopy theory of schemes? [duplicate]

Let $S$ be a smooth noetherian scheme, and let $Sm/S$ be the category of smooth schemes over $S$. Voevodsky constructs the homotopy category of motives (resp. the stable homotopy category of motives) $...
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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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Quotient of a motive by a finite group

Given a smooth scheme $X$ over a field $k$, we can consider its motive $M(X)$. It is an object in Voevodsky's triangulated category of motives $DM(k,\Lambda)$ where $\Lambda$ is the ring of ...
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Homotopy equivalence between two basepoints of the etale homotopy type of the one-torus

Let $T = \mathbb{G}_m$ be the torus, and let $\tilde{T}$ be its étale universal cover (a pro-object in schemes of finite type). Then both $T$ and $\tilde{T}$ have a well-defined étale homotopy type. ...
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Equivalence of rational Voevodsky motives: partial Converse to Conjecture of Orlov

There is a conjecture of Orlov stating that if $X$ and $Y$ are smooth projective complex varieties that are derived equivalent (equivalent bounded derived categories of coherent sheaves), then their ...
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Is the Hodge Conjecture an $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy invariant?

Let $X$ and $Y$ be two nonsingular projective varieties defined over the complex numbers. If $X$ and $Y$ are $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy equivalent, then does $X$ satisfying the Hodge conjecture imply ...
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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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$T$-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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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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