Questions tagged [motives]
for questions about motives in algebraic geometry, including constructions of categories of motives and motivic sheaves, and aspects of the standard conjectures.
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Motives and birational invariance
One can construct non-isomorphic smooth projective varieties which define the same motive by blowing up $\mathbb{P}^2$ at five points. I think I learned this here at MathOverflow. But these examples ...
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The importance of the Balmer spectrum
Why are Balmer spectra important? Can someone give examples of reconstruction a category by its spectrum (in some sense)?
It would also be interesting to see applications of Balmer spectra to the ...
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Picard group of the category of numerical motives
Is anything known about the Picard group of $Chow_{Num}(k, \mathbb{F}_{p})$ (numerical Chow motives with $\mathbb{F}_{p}-$coefficients)?
Perhaps the Picard groups of some other categories of pure ...
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Status of motives in higher category theory: motives and algebraic cycles through a higher categorical perspective
A while ago this interesting question was asked Derived Algebraic Geometry and Chow Rings/Chow Motives.
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Have there been any recent developments/advances on the above question? If not,...
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Étale descent of étale motives for algebraic spaces
Let $X$ be a (sufficiently nice) algebraic space, one can define the category of étale motives $\mathbf{DA}(X,R)$ (with $R$ a ring) like the case of schemes (see for instance, La réalisation étale et ...
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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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Foundations and contradictions of Scholze's work: the category of presentable infinity categories contains itself
Preface: I am not an expert in the work of Scholze, or anything for that matter.
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Has Scholze stated what axioms he is using to develop his theory of motives and analytic geometry. In the ...
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Reference for facts used in Bloch, "Algebraic cycles and L-functions II"
The proof of lemma 1.1 in [1] does not give references for a few statements it uses.
In the setting of the proof, $X$ is a smooth projective variety over a number field $k$ with a fixed embedding to $\...
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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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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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Elementary questions on motives
Motives are objects that appear in algebraic geometry, which is closely related to algebraic cycles. It was considered by Grothendieck, and developed notably by Deligne, Voevodsky etc.
I have the ...
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Chow-Künneth conjecture and Galois base change
Consider $K'|K$ a finite galois extension of degre $m$ and galois group $G$. Recall the Chow-Künneth conjecture :
Conjecture
For any (smooth projective) variety over a field $k$ and $H$ a Weil ...
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How are the hypergeometric motives of WZ-Pairs connected?
If $\small{(F,G)}$ is a WZ-pair and general asymptotic conditions $\lim_{k\rightarrow\infty}\small{G(n,k)=0}$ and $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}\small{F(n,k)=0}$ hold, then we have the certified ...
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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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Motivic $L$-functions came from automorphic representations
Langlands in his 1978 ICM talk made a conjecture that all motivic $L$-functions should arise as automorphic $L$-functions. A part of this conjecture, namely for some Hasse-Weil $\zeta$ functions is a ...
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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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Relation between motives and geometric Langlands
When working over a number field (or a function field over a finite field), one predicts that the Langlands program is related to the theory of motives over this field. There are several ways I have ...
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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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Amitsur's theorem for generalized Severi–Brauer varieties
Let $k$ be a field of characteristic zero and assume that $A$ is a central simple algebra of index $2^n > 2$. We denote by $\operatorname{SB}_i(A)$ the $i$-th (generalized) Severi–Brauer variety of ...
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What is the status of the theory of motives?
It has been almost 60 years since Grothendieck conceived the conjectural theory of motives in order to grasp the common behavior of the most important (Weil) cohomology theories.
But what is the ...
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Compatibility of system of $\ell$-adic representations associated to Voevodsky motives
Let $M$ be an object of Voevodsky's category $DM_{gm}(K,\mathbb{Q})$ for a number field $K$. For each prime number $\ell$, there is an $\ell$-adic realization $M_{\ell}$ in the bounded derived ...
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