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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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Are there "motivic" proofs of Weil conjectures in special cases?

This is a question meant as a first step to get into reading more on Weil conjectures and standard conjectures. It is known that the standard conjectures on vanishing of cycles would imply the Weil ...
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How would a motivic proof of the Riemann hypothesis over finite fields go?

It is well known that Grothendieck had a different idea than Deligne about how one should go about proving the Riemann hypothesis for finite fields. However, since Grothendieck's desired proof never ...
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Eilenberg-Steenrod cohomological theory versus Weil cohomological theory [closed]

Can someone enlighten me what is the difference between an Eilenberg-Steenrod cohomological theory ( See here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Steenrod_axioms ), and a Weil ...
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Roots of weight of a characteristic polynomial of Frobenius

We are expected to solve a conjecture of the title. Reference is Jean-Pierre Serre — Propriétés conjecturales des groupes de Galois motiviques et des représentations l-adiques. Precisely; Conjecture A:...
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