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Relations between the morphic cohomology and Hodge theory

The main question can be summarized in the following form: For a smooth projective complex variety $X$, is the cohomology $H^{2p}(X, \tau^{\leq p}\Omega_{alg}^{\bullet})$ supposed to surject onto $(H^...
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Motivic complexes associated to adequate equivalence relations

Motivic cohomology sheaves $\mathbb{Z}(n)$ are homotopy invariant sheaves with transfers (under finite maps) and they satisfy excision long exact sequence when everything is smooth. The motivic ...
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Are cubical higher Chow groups of field $CH^{n-1}(F,n)$ generated by linear cycles?

In the paper "The linearization of higher Chow cycles of dimension one" W. Gerdes proved that Higher Chow homology group $CH^{n-1}(F,n)=H^{n}(z^{n-1}(F,*))$ are generated by linear cycles. ...
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Motivic cohomology of Weil restriction

hopefully this isn't too obvious or well-known, but I couldn't find it by searching. The motivic cohomology of $\mathbb{G}_m$ and its powers over any base with known motivic cohomology can be computed ...
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Is this etale motivic or motivic cohomology?

I am trying to reconcile my understanding of motivic cohomology (based on the Lecture Notes by Mazza-Voevodsky-Weibel) with the homotopic point of view. I am currently struggling to answer this ...
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Borel-Moore variant of the Lichtenbaum conjecture

A conjecture of Lichtenbaum expects that for a smooth proper variety $X$ over a finite field, the etale motivic cohomology groups $H^i(X_{et}, \mathbb{Z}(n))$ are finite for $i\neq 2n, 2n+2$, finitely ...
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Mod $l$ algebraic $K$-theory of product of an algebra with a complete algebra

By Gabber's rigidity the mod-$l$ $K$-theory of $k[[t]]$ and $k$ are isomorphic for a field $k$. Is there anything that we can say about the mod $l$ $K$-theory of $A\otimes_kk[[t]]$? Note that this is ...
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Representable cohomology theories in motivic homotopy theory

I am reading Mazza's, Voevodsky's and Weibel's book Lecture Notes on Motivic Cohomology and have grown curious about the following question: Which cohomology theories on $Sm/k$ are representable, i.e. ...
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Comparing $K$-cohomology groups and weight filtration on the $K$-groups

The second page of the Quillen-Brown-Gersten is in the following form: $$E_2^{p,q}=H^{p}(X, \mathcal{K}_{-q})\Rightarrow K_{-q-p}(X)$$ Here $\mathcal{K}_n$ is sheafification of the $U\mapsto K_n(U)$ ...
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Constructible motivic sheaves

Motivic complexes are a complex of Zariski sheaves that their Zariski hypercohomology gives us the motivic cohomology groups. There are various constructions of these complexes. As far as I know they ...
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Lefschetz type theorems/conjectures for algebraic $K$-theory

Lefschetz hyperplane theorem, compares the homology/cohomology of a projective variety with a hyperplane section of it and claims they are isomorphic in certain ranges. There are Lefschetz type ...
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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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Idempotent completions in K-theory

I have a reference request on following comment I found in nLab article on Karoubian categories & envelopes. It states: The Karoubian envelope is also used in the construction of the category of ...
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Contractibility of a $K_0^{\oplus}$ presheaf

Let's assume $X$ is a smooth projective variety over a field. Let $\Delta^{\bullet}$ be the cosimplicial scheme over the same field, where at level $n$ is just the $n$-th algebraic simplex. We can ...
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A class in the motivic cohomology group $H^{0,1}(\operatorname{Spec}k;\mathbb{Z}/p)$

In the following paper N. Yagita, Examples for the Mod p Motivic Cohomology of Classifying Spaces, on the first page, below display (1.1), it says "It is known that there is an element $\tau\in H^...
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Loop spaces of motivic Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces

Consider the unstable $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy category (say over $\mathbb{C}$). By the loop space $\Omega X$ of an object $X$, we mean the homotopy fiber of $pt\to X$. For an abelian group A and the ...
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Descent and Chow groups

One of the features of the $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy theory is the existence of the motivic Eilenberg-MacLane space $K(\mathbb{Z}(n),2n)$ such that for $k$-schemes $X$, we have $$[X,K(\mathbb{Z}(n),2n)]\...
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Suspension Theorem in $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy

In algebraic topology, the suspension theorem tells us that for a topological space $X$, we have $$\tilde{H}^n(X,F)\cong \tilde{H}^{n+k}(S^k\wedge X,F).$$ So I'm wondering if this has an analogue in ...
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What can be said about the Chow rings of classifying spaces of semi-direct products of groups?

For instance, what can we say about the Chow ring of the classifying space of a semi-direct product $CH^*(B(G\ltimes H))$, in terms of the Chow rings of $CH^*(BG)$, $CH^*(BH)$, and the singular ...
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Stalk of motivic homotopy sheaves

In contrast to "classical" homotopy theory, in the motivic homotopy theory, we don't have homotopy group but rather homotopy sheaves in the Nisnevich topology, which is associated to the ...
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Vanishing of a Higher Brauer group of a field

Let $k$ be a field. I am interested in the notion of the higher Brauer group defined as follows: For X a smooth scheme over $k$, $Br^r(X):=H^{2r+1}_{et}(X, \mathbb{Z}(r))$, an etale motivic cohomology ...
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Surjective étale morphisms étale locally split

The actual question is slightly more general than that in the title: Let $p: U\to Y$ be a surjective étale morphism and $Y\to X$ be a finite morphism of schemes. Is there an étale cover $V\to X$ (...
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What is the fibrant replacement of an Eilenberg-MacLane space in unstable motivic homotopy theory?

One can take an Eilenberg-MacLane space $K(A, n)$ for some abelian group $A$, and view it as (locally) constant simplicial sheaf on $Sch/k$, the category of schemes, or smooth schemes, over a field $k$...
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Filtrations of motivic spectral sequences

I had a general question about motivic spectral sequences. In order to derive them we first begin with a filtration of the algebraic $K$-theory spectra. Something like this $\cdots \rightarrow W^2(X)\...
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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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Grayson filtration and weight filtration

I had a question that might be well-known but I'm not sure where to find it. Grayson defined a filtration on the algebraic $K$-theory of affine regular rings via commuting automorphisms which you can ...
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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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Example of a non-strongly $A^1$ invariant sheaf of groups

A Nisnevich sheaf of groups is called strongly $A^1$-invariant if its classifying space $BG$ is $A^1$-invariant. I would like an example that is $A^1$ invariant but not strongly $A^1$-invariant for an ...
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Proof that $Sing^IX$ is $I$-invariant for an interval object in a site by "simplicial decomposition"

I just saw a proof showing that $Sing^{A^1}X$ is $A^1$ invariant where they use an algebraic topological analogue of ``simplcial decomposition'' defined as follow: The argument works by showing that ...
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Is transfinite composition of weak equivalences of simplicial presheaves a weak equivalence?

In a left Bousfield localization of the projective model structure on the category of simplicial presheaves, what is the condition that transfinite composition preserves weak equivalences? How about ...
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Is $B\mathbb{G}_m$ strongly $A^1$-invariant?

I have just seen the definition of strongly ${A}_1$ invariance: A sheaf of group $G$ is strongly $A_1$ invariance , if both $H^0(-;G)$ and $H^1(-;G)$ is $A_1$-invariant. I haven't got too much ...
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Few questions about the algebraic cycles and the conjectures of Beilinson and Tate

I have three slightly related questions about algebraic cycles which I am just going to list them. I'd really appreciate any answers: 1) Is there any example of a smooth projective variety $X$ over a ...
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Adequate equivalence relations and algebraic $K$-theory

I have a somewhat vague question. We know that Adams operation gives a filtration on $K_i(X)\otimes \mathbb{Q}$ for the scheme $X$ such that the weight $j$ elements are isomorphic to higher Bloch Chow ...
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Chow group of a pair

In a paper by S. Landsburg the (higher) Chow groups of a pair $(X,Y)$ are defined when $Y$ is a smooth closed subvariety of a smooth variety $X$ as follows. We consider the sub-complex $z^{*}(X;.)_{Y}...
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On the Beilinson's conjecture regarding the proper flat integral models

I had a question which seems to be straightforward but I wasn't able to figure it out. In page 13 of this paper a conjecture of beilison is mentioned that if $\mathcal{X}_{\mathbb{Z}}$ is a proper ...
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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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Bass' conjecture implies the Parshin's conjecture

In the appendix of this paper. It is proved that Bass' conjecture for $K_n$ implies the rational Beilinson-Soulé conjecture for $K_n$. Then at the end the author claims that the same method can be ...
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Brauer groups over local fields

Let X be a smooth projective variety over a local field of characteristic $(0,p)$. The Brauer group of X is a torsion group whose $l$-part is of cofinite type of some corank. Is it know that the $l$-...
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A question about the (motivic) integral cohomology of the Eilenberg-MacLane spectrum

Let $H\mathbb{Z}$ be the Eilenberg-MacLane spectrum. Let $n\geq 0$ be any integer. Is it known the structure of the group $[H\mathbb{Z},\Sigma^{n}H\mathbb{Z}]$? Is there any reference in this ...
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Norm quadrics and their motives

Let $k$ be a field of characteristic $\neq 2$ and $\langle\!\langle a_{1},\cdots,a_{n}\rangle\!\rangle$ a Pfister form over $k$. Denote by $Q_{\underline{a}}=Q_{a_{1},\cdots,a_{n}}$ the projective ...
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Motivic cohomology of $n$-sphere

All motivic cohomology groups are taken with $\mu_2$ coefficient and $k$ has characteristic different from $2$. Consider the affine variety $X$ with coordinate ring $k[x_1,\ldots,x_n]/(x_1^2+\ldots + ...
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Why $K(X) \longrightarrow G (X)$ is a Poincaré duality for K-theory?

It's well known that for Noetherian separated regular schemes the canonical map $$K(X) \longrightarrow G(X)$$ (Quillen uses $K'$ instead of $G$, though) is a weak equivalence. This statement is ...
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Motivic cohomology is universal with respect to what (co)homology theories?

I have been told several times, at least implicitly, that motivic cohomology should be universal with respect to Bloch-Ogus cohomology theories. Is it proved somewhere or is it just some folk theorem? ...
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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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Thom class in motivic cohomology

Let $E$ be a vector bundle over a smooth scheme $X$. The Thom space of $E$ is $Th(E)=E/E-i(X)$ where $i\colon X \longrightarrow E$ is the zero section. This space is $\mathbb{A}^{1}$ isomorphic to $\...
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Galois descent in motivic cohomology

Let $X_N$ denote the Fermat curve defined over $\mathbb{Q}$ by the equation $x^N+y^N-z^N=0$ and let $X_{N,\mathbb{Q}(\mu_N)}$ be the base change. Let $G$ be the Galois group of $\mathbb{Q}(\mu_N)/\...
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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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Injectivity of regulator maps

Let $X$ be a scheme which is smooth and quasi-projective over $\operatorname{Spec} \mathbf{Z}[1/N]$, and let $\ell$ be a prime dividing $N$ (hence invertible on $X$). Then then there is a regulator ...
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A quite puzzling question on Deligne cohomology sheaves and cycle maps

Intro. I would be deeply grateful if someone could please clarify the following to me. The question. (the main point is (4)) Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over $\mathbf{C}$, and $\mathbf{Z}(...
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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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