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Why is the weight monodromy hard in mixed characteristics?

I know very little about the conjecture, beyond Grothendieck's monodromy theorem perhaps (a dense open subgroup of inertia acting unipotently on pure motives). But I heard that it was completely ...
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Bloch–Beilinson conjecture for varieties over function fields of positive characteristic

Is there a version of the Bloch–Beilinson conjecture for smooth projective varieties over global fields of positive characteristic? The conjecture I’m referring to is the “recurring fantasy” on page 1 ...
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Absolute Hodge cycles over $\mathbf{Q}$

In the 1986 notes by Milne "Hodge cycles on abelian varieties", Deligne defines the notion of absolute Hodge cycles. For a smooth projective variety defined over $k\subset\mathbf{C}$ non ...
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Generalization of conjectures involving Beilinson regulators

I had some questions about the Beilinson conjectures as mentioned in this page. I have to admit I do not know much about Deligne cohomology. The conjectures involve some form of comparison map between ...
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Why is the category of motives generated by varieties?

I'm reading Ayoub's paper Motifs des varietes analytiques rigides, but I'm not quite familiar with motives. In this paper, he defines the category of motives to be $\mathbf{RigDM}^{\rm eff}_{\rm Nis}(...
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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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What are the consequences of the finite generation of $\operatorname{Ext}^1_{\mathcal{O}_F}(\mathbb{1},M)$?

Let $F$ be a number fields. Conjecturally, there is a rigid $\mathbb{Q}$-linear abelian category of mixed motives over $F$. Let $\mathbb{1}$ denotes the unit object of this category. Given a mixed ...
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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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What unramified Galois representations come from geometry?

I think we don't know what crystalline representations come from geometry. What about the unramified ones? Specifically let $\phi:\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}_p}/\mathbb{Q}_p)\to GL_n(\mathbb{Q}...
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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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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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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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Definition field of weight homomorphism and moduli interpretation of Shimura varieties

In "Canonical models of Shimura curves" by J.S. Milne (avaliable at https://www.jmilne.org/math/articles/2003a.pdf), he explains the definition of quaternion Shimura curve, and explains the modern ...
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Current status of independence of Betti numbers for different Weil cohomology theories

Previous problem: Is $\operatorname{dim} H^1$ of an abelian variety the same for any Weil cohomology? Let $X$ be an smooth projective variety over a field $k$. For any Weil cohomology theory for ...
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Is there literature on a de Rham analogue of the Mumford-Tate group or ell-adic monodromy group?

Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over $\mathbb{Q}$. The theory of motives predicts that for each cohomology theory, there should be a distinguished Zariski closed subgroup of $GL(H^k_{\bullet}(X)...
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Functoriality for $\ell$-adic cohomology - a question

This should a be basic enough question, but I’m a little confused. In proving that $H^*(X,\mathbf{Q}_{\ell})$ is functorial (in the sense of Weil cohomology theories: see axiom D2 here) as $X$ ranges ...
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Precise formulation of conjectures on orders of vanishing?

Let $X$ be a smooth and proper scheme over $\text{Spec}(\mathbf{Z})$. C. Soulé has conjectures about special values of the completed zeta function of $X$, $\zeta(X,s)$, which were first reformulated ...
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Lefschetz standard conjecture under specialization/generization

Let $S$ be a smooth connected noetherian scheme (not necessarily over a field) with residue fields that are all of finite type over their prime field. Let $f: \mathcal{X}\to S$ be a smooth projective ...
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Coniveau in étale motivic cohomology

Let $X$ be a smooth variety over a field. Is there a spectral sequence: $$E_1^{p,q} := \bigoplus_{x\in X^{(p)}}H^{q-p}(\kappa(x)_{\rm ét},\mathbf{Z}(n))\Rightarrow H^{q-p}(X_{\rm ét},\mathbf{Z}(n))$$...
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Multiplicative structure on Deligne cohomology

Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over the complex numbers, and $\mathbf{Z}(p)_{\mathcal{D}}$ the Deligne complex on $X$: $$\mathbf{Z}(p)_{\mathcal{D}} : \ \ \mathbf{Z}(p)\to\mathcal{O}_X\to\...
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Spectral sequence in Betti cohomology

Let $X$ be a smooth projective algebraic variety over the complex numbers, and let us name $$f : X_{\rm an}\to X_{\rm Zar}$$ the morphism of sites induced by sending a Zariski open $U\subset X$ to $...
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Torsion homologically trivial cycles

Is there an example of a smooth projective variety $X$ over the complex numbers, such that $$\ker(\text{CH}^2(X)\to H^4(X,\mathbf{Z}(2))$$ is not torsion?
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Filtrations and the Betti cycle map

Let $X$ be a smooth projective complex variety. Calling $f : X_{\rm an}\to X_{\rm Zar}$ the "change-of-topology" morphism of sites induced by sending a Zariski open $U$ of $X$ to its analytification, ...
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Cycles modulo homological equivalence

Let $\text{CH}^p(X)_{\rm hom}$ be the abelian group of codimension $p$ algebraic cycles on a smooth projective variety over a field $k$, modulo homological equivalence. Is $\text{CH}^p(X)_{\rm hom}$ ...
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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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Two motivic complexes, compared

Bloch defines the motivic complexes $\mathbf{Z}(n)$ in his paper "Algebraic Cycles and Higher K-Theory" (1986). Some references (that I currently am unable to track down) use $$\check{\mathbf{Z}}(n) :...
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Tate Conjecture birational invariant?

Is the Tate Conjecture stable under birational equivalence? In particular, is the Tate Conjecture for rational varieties known?
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Locus of Hodge classes

Let $\pi: X\to S$ be a proper smooth morphism of complex analytic spaces, with connected smooth $X$ and $S$ over $\mathbf{C}$, projective fibers, and $$\mathscr{H}_{X/S}^p := R^p\pi_*\Omega^{\bullet}_{...
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$\mathbf{A}^1$- contractibility

Suppose $U$ is an $\mathbf{A}^1$-contractible smooth scheme over a field $k$, that is, it is isomorphic to a point in the $\mathbf{A}^1$-homotopy category of smooth schemes over $k$. Does motivic ...
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Group completion of Chow varieties

Let $X$ be a quasi-projective variety over a perfect field $k$. Given a projective embedding $j : X\to \mathbf{P}(\mathscr{E})$, the Chow variety $\text{Chow}_r(X, j)$ is a quasi-projective variety ...
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Semisimplicity conjecture

In this short note Ben Moonen proves that over fields of characteristic zero that are of finite type over their prime field, the Tate conjecture about surjectivity of cycle maps implies the semi-...
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Sha finiteness vs $\ell$-primary torsion

Where do I find a proof of the fact that over global function fields of characteristic $p>0$, finiteness of the Tate-Shafarevich group of an abelian variety is equivalent to finiteness of its $\ell$...
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Effective cycles of codimension 1 and field extensions

Let $X$ be a smooth quasi-projective variety over a field $k$, with pure dimension $d$, $K/k$ an arbitrary field extension. For any algebraic cycle $\eta$ of codimension $1$ on $X_K$ ($\eta\in Z^1(...
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Around algebraic equivalence of cycles

Let $k$ be a finitely generated field, $X$ a smooth projective $k$-variety, $\ell$ a prime number, $\ell\in k^{\times}$, $r\ge 0$ an integer. The Tate conjecture asserts surjectivity of the cycle ...
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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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Borel regulator and Bloch-Beilinson regulators

Is there any relation, either conjectural or known, between the Borel regulator for the Quillen $K$-theory of algebraic number rings, and the Bloch-Beilinson regulator from motivic cohomology to real ...
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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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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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On Abhyankar's results cited in a paper of Manin titled "Correspondences, Motifs and Monoidal Transformations"

Consider the following from this paper "Correspondences, Motifs and Monoidal Transformations" of Manin here. Theorem. Nonsingular three-dimensional projective unirational varieties $V$ over ...
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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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Is Scholl construction of modular motives related to Deligne's construction of $\ell$-adic representations?

First of all, I need to declare my extreme ignorance on the topic of modular forms, so, please, does not assume that I know Deligne's construction in details. In Motives for modular forms, Scholl ...
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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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Crystalline realization of mixed Tate motives

Deligne and Goncharov, in their article of 2005, mention that the crystalline realization functor has yet to be worked out. What's the current state of the literature on this? And how big of an issue ...
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Pure motives and compatible systems of $\ell$-adic representations

I am trying to understand the statement of the conjectures of Deligne on special values of certain $L$-functions, from his article titled, "Valuers de Fonctions L et periodes d'integrales" which ...
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Is the Tate conjecture known for etale covers of products of curves

Let $X$ be a (smooth projective geometrically connected) surface over a finitely generated field $k$. The Tate conjecture predicts that, for $l$ a prime number invertible in $k$, the Chern class map ...
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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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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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A question about the Tannakian etale fundamental group of a curve

Let $X$ be a smooth connected quasi-projective curve over $\mathbf{Q}$. Let $U$ be the pro-unipotent etale fundamental group of $X$ over $\mathbf{Q}_p$. $U^1 = U$ and let $U^n =[U,U^{n-1}]$. Let $n\...
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Langlands in dimension 2: the Yoshida conjecture

Background: One prominent part of the Langlands program is the conjecture that all motives are automorphic. It is of interest to consider special cases that are more precise, if less sweeping. ...