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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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$\mathbf{A}^1$- 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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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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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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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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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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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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Homology of Gersten complex for singular schemes

It is one of the important facts in K-theory/motivic cohomology that the Gersten-type complexes (for Quillen K-theory, Milnor K-theory or more generally Rost's cycle modules) are exact for smooth ...
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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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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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Homotopical enhancements of cycle class maps

Fix a smooth projective variety $X$ over the complex numbers. We write $H^n(X,\mathbf{Z}(d)) = \text{CH}^d(X, 2d-n)$ for Bloch's higher Chow groups. Notation For a field $k$, recall $\Delta^n_{k} :=...
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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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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: 1.- ...
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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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Higher Chow groups revisited

Let $X$ be an algebraic variety over a field $k$. Bloch defines the "algebraic singular complex" using the algebraic simplices $$\Delta^n = \text{Spec}(k[x_0,\dots,x_n]/(x_0+x_1+\dots+x_n=1) \subset ...
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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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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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Nori's Mixed Motives and Realisation Functors

The conjecture 51 in Levine's Mixed Motives in Handbook of K-theory http://www.math.illinois.edu/K-theory/handbook/1-429-522.pdf states that the functor induced by $hs:\text{ECM} \rightarrow \text{...
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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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representability of étale and motivic cohomology by schemes

One has $\mathrm{H}^1_{\mathrm{et}}(X,\mathbf{G}_m) = \mathrm{H}^2(X,\mathbf{Z}(1)) = \mathrm{Pic}(X)$ (étale and motivic cohomology). Is étale or motivic cohomology in other dimensions also ...
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Which motivic cohomology groups of complex numbers are non-torsion?

I would like to know which motivic cohomology groups of complex numbers are non-zero and ("better") non-torsion, i.e., for which $(i,j)$ the $i$th cohomology of the complex ${\mathbb{Q}}(j)$ over $\...
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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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Arakelov Motivic Cohomology and Hodge Theory

Lately I have been studying these two papers (first and second) that introduce a new cohomology theory called Arakelov motivic cohomology. While most of the applications presented in the papers are ...
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Obtaining the Hilbert symbol from cup product on motivic cohomology

Let F be a number field. Does the Hilbert symbols at the various places of F arise from the cup product on the motivic cohomology groups of Spec(F)? And if so, is it possible to interpret Moore's ...
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Galois descent for etale motivic cohomology

I am interested in the map from etale motivic cohomology of a smooth and projective variety over a field $K$ to the Galois invariants of etale motivic cohomology over the algebraic closure $\bar K$: $...
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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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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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Proof of Theorem 6.8 in the paper "Singular homology of abstract algebraic varieties"

Background: Theorem 6.8 in Suslin and Voevodsky's article "Singular homology of abstract algebraic varieties" states that there is an isomorphism between effective relative zero cycles $z_0^c(Z)^{eff}(...
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Comparison of cdh and h cohomology

I expect that if $X$ is a finite type $k$-scheme, $k$ a field of characterisic $p$, then for primes $\ell\neq p$, $H^*_{cdh}(X;\mathbb{Z}/\ell\mathbb{Z})\cong H^*_{h}(X;\mathbb{Z}/\ell\mathbb{Z})$. Is ...
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Vanishing of Zariski motivic sheaf

Let X be a smooth variety over a field. Is it true in general that the sheaf $\mathcal{H}^{r}(\mathbb{Z}(s))=0$ if $r>s \geq 0$? Here $\mathcal{H}^{r}(\mathbb{Z}(s))=0$ is the sheaf associated to ...
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Injectivity of map in Beilinson's conjectures

In Beilinson's conjectures on special values of L-functions, he uses the image of the motivic cohomology of a a regular proper model in the motivic cohomology of the generic fiber to state the ...
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Fulton's pullback vs. Pullback via Gersten complexes vs. Pullback coming from motivic homotopy SH(k)

Let $f: X \rightarrow Y$ be a morphism of smooth projective $k$-schemes (let's assume $f$ flat or even smooth). There is pullback in Fulton's style $f^*_{Ful}: CH^p(Y) \rightarrow CH^p(X)$ given by $[...
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On non-vanishing of Milnor K-groups for infinite fields

It is well-known that for $n \geq 2$ and a finite field $k$, the Milnor $K$-group $K_n ^M (k)$ vanishes. I don't know who proved this first, but if curious, you may look at somewhere in Srinivas's ...
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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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Motivic cohomology of a point

I was wondering how much is known about the integral motivic cohomology groups of $\mathrm{Spec}\, k$, $H^{n,p}_{\mathrm{mot}}(\mathrm{Spec}\, k,\mathbb{Z})$. One knows that $H^{n,n}_{\mathrm{mot}}(\...
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Motivic Interpretation of Rationally Trivial Cycles

The Chow groups are defined by taking groups of cycles modulo rationally trivial cycles. One then has a cycle class map to etale cohomology (over the base field), and for a number field, one expects ...
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What is the etale sheafification of the (unramified) Milnor-Witt $K$-theory

I would like a reference/argument for the truth/falsity of the following statement: The etale sheafification of the unramified Milnor-Witt K-theory (Nisnevich) sheaves are the (etale sheafification ...
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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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Do there exist nontrivial motivic cohomology operations preserving weights?

Suppose that for each field $F$ a linear map $X(F): H_M^{p,q}(F, \mathbb{Q}) \longrightarrow H_M^{p,q}(F,\mathbb{Q})$ is given, such that $X$ commutes with inclusions of fields and transfers for ...
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Vanishing in etale motivic cohomology

As far as vanishing is concerned, the usual motivic cohomology has the following two properties (for a smooth scheme $X$ over a field): $H^{p,q}(X, \mathbb Z) = 0$, if $p > q + dim(X)$; and $H^{p,...
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Reference request for the relation of Ext groups and bar construction

I need a reference for the description of Ext groups in mixed categories (i.e. abelian categories with a weight filtration and semisimple graded quotients) by using the bar complex, as mentioned in "...
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Exactness of pure functors

I can't prove this lemma in "Notes on motivic cohomology, Beilinson, Macpherson, Schechtman": Lemma. A pure functor is exact. Definitions: A mixed category $\mathcal{M}$ is a $\mathbb{Q}$-abelian ...
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When does the continuous Galois(=etale) cohomology of fields coincide with the naive one? Often true by the Bloch-Kato conjecture?

For a field $F$ I am interested in its $l$-adic (Galois=\'etale) cohomology; here $l$ is a prime distinct from the characteristic of $F$ (for simplicity one may assume that the latter is $0$). For $...
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About embedding pure motives into the triangulated category of mixed motives and some further questions about motivic cohomology

I have tried reading some texts about motives, mainly motivic cohomology (Bloch's " Lectures on Algebraic Cycles", Voevodsky's "Motivic Cohomology" etc). However some things confused me. I don't know ...
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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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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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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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Vanishing of Motivic Cohomology

In these notes, page $10$, bullet $(5)$, it is stated that if $X$ is a scheme of finite type over a field $k$, then the motivic cohomology $\mathrm{H}^{p,q}(X,R)$ of $X$ over $k$, where $R$ is a ring, ...
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The 'most general' papers on rational Borel-Moore motivic homology and K'-theory?

There are two ways to define Borel-Moore motivic homology (of schemes) with rational coefficients: one should either consider certain complexes of algebraic cycles, or the $\gamma$-filtrations of ...
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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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