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What is the relationship between motivic cohomology and the theory of motives?
I will begin by giving a rough sketch of my understanding of motives.
In many expositions about motives (for example, http://www.jmilne.org/math/xnotes/MOT102.pdf), the category of motives is defined ...
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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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Spectral sequences in $K$-theory
There is an algebraic analogue of the Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence from singular cohomology to topological $K$-theory of a topological space.
For a field $k$, let $X$ be smooth variety $X$ ...
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Applications of homotopy purity theorem of Morel-Voevodsky
One of the most important theorems in motivic homotopy theory is the homotopy purity theorem of Morel-Voevodsky which says that the motivic Thom space of the normal bundle $\mathcal N_{Z/X}$ of a ...
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Why presheaves with transfer?
Presheaves with transfer are a main technical ingredient in Voevodsky's construction of his category of mixed motives. From the perspective of motivic homotopy theory, the only difference between SH ...
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Can there exist Chow motives/motivic cohomology for compact Kähler manifolds?
Can there exist a 'reasonable' extension of the (higher) Chow groups of complex smooth projective algebraic varieties to functors on the category of compact Kähler manifolds? Are there any ...
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Is Deligne cohomology the motivic cohomology of analytic spaces?
Let $X$ be a smooth projective complex analytic space.
We can cook up a complex analytic version of Bloch's cycle complex by declaring
$z^n(X^{\rm an}, m)$
is the free abelian group on all ...
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Who proved the motivic 6-functor formalism?
In the recent beautiful talk "Motives and ring stacks" Peter Scholze states the theorem saying that there exists an initial 6-functor formalism on $\mathit{Sch}_\mathbb{Z}$ such that
when $...
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Motivic vs Deligne cohomology
Where can I find the construction of the cycle class map from motivic cohomology to Deligne cohomology of smooth projective varieties over the complex numbers?
It should be a construction by Bloch ...
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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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How to think about infinite generatedness of motivic cohomology
In this question I previously asked how to think about the motivic complex $\mathbf{Z}(1)_{\mathcal{M}}$, whose Zariski hypercohomology should morally be the "singular cohomology" $H^*((-)\wedge S^{2n}...
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Motivic cohomology and pushforward maps
I have a question about pushforward maps for the motivic cohomology groups $H^p(X, \mathbf{Q}(q))$, for $X$ a smooth variety over a characteristic 0 field.
According to Mazza--Voevodsky--Weibel "...
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A question about the vanishing of motivic cohomology in negative Tate twist
Let $DM_{\text{gm}}$ be the category of Voevodsky´s geometric motives. Let $p,q\in \mathbb{Z}$ be integers with $p<0$.
Is it true that
$$\text{Hom}_{DM_{\text{gm}}}(M_{\text{gm}}(X),\mathbb{Z}(p)[...
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Stable motivic cohomology with finite coefficients?
In this question, which attracted no responces so far, I've asked whether it is possible to extend the Beilinson-Lichtenbaum etale descent rule for motivic cohomology to singular varieties, in ...
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Torsion in Deligne cohomology
Let $X$ be a smooth projective complex analytic space, $i,p\ge 0$ integers, $\mathbf{Z}(p)_{\mathcal{D}}$ the Deligne complex of $X$, $H^i_{\mathcal{D}}(X,\mathbf{Z}(p))$ its hypercohomology.
What ...
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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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How to think about $\mathbf{Z}(n)_{\mathcal{M}}$
One definition of motivic cohomology for smooth schemes $X$ over a field, is via Friedlander-Suslin complexes.
A refresher (you may skip to the question at the bottom)
One defines
(1) $z_n(X,d) :=$...
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Known norm varieties and the Bloch-Kato conjecture
The Bloch-Kato conjecture states that
$K_M^n(k)/l \simeq H^n(k,\mu^{\otimes n}_l)$ for every $n,l$,while $l$ is invertible in $k$.
A important part in the proof of the Bloch-Kato conjecture is to ...
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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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Intuition behind the definition of finite correspondences
Finite correspondences were introduced by Suslin-Voevodsky (if I am not wrong) to define motivic complexes that compute motivic cohomology. Let $X$ and be smooth separated schemes of finite type over ...
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A question on Voevodsky´s categories
I want to try to understand the Voevodsky´s big triangulated categories of motives $DM$ and $DM^{eff}$. Unfortunately, I am being not able to find answers to the following, too vague, questions:
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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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Motivation for Suslin’s Rigidity Conjecture
Suslin Rigidity conjecture states that motivic cohomology
$$
H_{\mathcal{M}}^1(\operatorname{Spec}(F),\mathbb{Q}(n))
$$
of the field $F$ coincides with motivic cohomology for the subfield of ...
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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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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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Any "motive"(-like) theory which can catch that cusp $y^2=x^3$ (and similar) are non-trivial?
Consider cusp $y^2=x^3$ which can also be described as $k[z]~without~z$ , taking $x=z^3,y=z^2$.
Algebraically its $Spec$ is quite different from $k$. For example:
it has plenty non-trivial "line-...
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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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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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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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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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Standard conjectures on positive characteristic
In this MO answer of M. Bondarko, he says:
"the Hodge conjecture implies all the Grothendieck's standard conjectures over base fields of characteristic 0..."
and in Remarks on Grothendieck's ...
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Functoriality conjectures on the slice filtration
Voevodsky wrote on his paper "Open Problems in the Motivic Stable Homotopy Theory, I" that
Three other groups of conjectures in motivic homotopy theory, not included in to this paper, seem ...
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Explicit description of Verdier quotient of effective motives
Let $DM^{eff}_{gm}(k)$ be the triangulated category of effective geometric motives over some field $k$ (in the sense of Voevodsky), and let $DM^{eff}_{gm}(k)(1)$ be its full triangulated subcategory ...
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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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Effectivity and Lower Shriek for Voevodsky Motives
I am in a situation where I need a result of the following form. Suppose $X$ is a smooth $k$-variety, $U$ is a dense open subvariety with complement $Z$ a smooth divisor. Let $\pi^X:X\rightarrow\text{...
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Arc space & formal loops in motivic integration
One of the most essential ingredients in the theory of motivic integration are the space of arcs of a given $k$-variety
$X$. This is a scheme, whose $k$-rational points are the $k[[t]]$-valued points ...
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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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Weak Lefschetz for torsion motivic cohomology (or torsion Chow groups)?
I am trying to prove the following Weak-Lefschetz-type statement for motivic cohomology: if $Z$ is a smooth hyperplane section of a smooth projective $X$ of dimension $d$ (say, over the field of ...
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Are finite correspondances flat?
In Voevodsky&Mazza&Weibel's book on motivic cohomology they define "an elementary correspondance from X (Smooth connected scheme over $k$) to Y (separated scheme over $k$) as an irreducible ...
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Dualizability and motivic cohomology
Suppose $k$ is an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p$. Let $A=\mathbb{Z}/\ell\mathbb{Z}$, $\ell$ a prime coprime to $p$. Denote by $MA$ the motivic Eilenberg-Maclane spectrum over $k$. Is ...
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Voevodsky's 'split standard triple' argument: an explanation; does it work with $Z/nZ$-coefficients?
For varieties over a perfect field (of some characteristic $p$ that could be 0) Voevodsky defines the notion of a 'standard triple' (see http://books.google.ru/books?id=TzUmk87bN9cC&pg=PA85&...
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Pseudo-Abelian Completion in the constrution of Motifs (by Y. Manin)
I reading Yuri Manin's famous paper on "CORRESPONDENCES, MOTIFS AND MONOIDAL TRANSFORMATIONS" and struggle with his definition for so called pseudo-abelian completion given on page 453 by a reason I ...
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Definition of Hurewicz map relating $SH(k)$ with $DM_\_^{eff}(k)$
In "Motivic Homotopy Theory" on page 153 it is stated that there exists a canonical Hurewicz map relating the motivic stable homotopy category with the category $\operatorname{DM}_\_^{eff}(k)$. ...
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Algebraic correspondence as morphisms in Betti cohomology
$\newcommand{\sing}{\mathrm{sing}}$Take a commutative ring $R$ and smooth projective complex varieties $X$ and $Y$. An element $\alpha\in CH^*(X\times Y)_R$ induces the algebraic correspondence for ...
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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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Which "concrete" morphisms of varieties and motives induce bijections of their lower Chow groups?
This question is a continuation of Varieties with Chow groups supported in positive codimension: examples and properties?
What examples are known of morphisms of varieties and Chow motives (say, over ...
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Differences and relationships between Motivic cohomology and Universal cohomology theory? [duplicate]
Differences and relationships between Motivic cohomology (Beilinson, Lichtenbaum and Voevodsky) and Universal cohomology theory (Grothendieck)?
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What can one say about zero-cycle groups for products of Chow motives
What can one say about the Chow group of zero-cycles (up to rational equivalence) for a product of smooth projective varieties and Chow motives (so, I am interested in the kernel $Chow_0(P)\otimes ...
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