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Grothendieck-Teichmüller conjecture
(1) In "Esquisse d'un programme", Grothendieck conjectures
Grothendieck-Teichmüller conjecture: the morphism
$$
G_{\mathbb{Q}} \longrightarrow Aut(\widehat{T})
$$
is an isomorphism.
Here $...
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What are the possible motivic Galois groups over $\mathbb Q$?
Let $E$ be a motive over $\mathbb Q$. (I should precise, that by a motive I mean
here a pure motive over $\mathbb Q$, with coefficients in $\mathbb Q$, that I see here as a conjectural object which ...
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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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$\zeta(n)$ as a mixed Tate motive
I am trying to understand why there exists, for each $n \geq 2$, a mixed Tate motive $M$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ such that
$M \in Ext^1_{MT(\mathbb{Q})}(\mathbb{Q}(0), \mathbb{Q}(n))$
and $\zeta(n)$, ...
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How are motives related to anabelian geometry and Galois-Teichmuller theory?
In Recoltes et Semailles, Grothendieck remarks that the theory of motives is related to anabelian geometry and Galois-Teichmuller theory. My understanding of these subjects is not very solid at this ...
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What should motives for $L(E,n)$ look like?
Goncharov and Manin showed in this paper that the zeta values $\zeta(n)$ can be realized as periods of framed mixed Tate motives constructed from moduli spaces $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_{0,n+3}$ of ...
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What is the relationship between these two notions of "period"?
The motivation for this question is to understand a recent theorem of Francis Brown which implies that all periods of mixed Tate motives over $\mathbb{Z}$ lie in $\mathcal{Z}[\frac{1}{2\pi i}]$, where ...
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Deligne's proof of Ramanujan's conjecture
I am trying to understand Deligne's proof of the Ramanujan conjecture and more generally how one associates geometric objects (ultimately, motives) to modular forms.
As the first step, which I ...
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Number of $\mathbb F_p$ points constant mod $p$?
I have some affine varieties $X$ defined over $\mathbb Z$, and associated integers $c(X)$, with the property that $\# X_{\mathbb Z/p} \equiv c(X) \bmod p$ for all $p$. (In particular $c(X)$ is usually ...
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Crystalline realization of mixed Tate motives
Deligne and Goncharov, in their article of 2005, mention that the crystalline realization functor has yet to be worked out. What's the current state of the literature on this? And how big of an issue ...
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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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What is the best reference for motives?
I want to learn about homotopy theory on number fields, and I heard that the theory of motives made it possible, so I want to know what is a good textbook for motive theory.
To be honest, I don’t ...
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Which degree does a motivic Galois representation show up in?
Consider a representation $\rho: \operatorname{Gal} (\overline{\mathbb Q} | \mathbb Q ) \to GL_n ( \overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell)$ that is a subrepresentation of $H^i(X, \overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell (j))$ ...
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Chow Groups of varieties over number fields
I believe that there is a conjecture that for any smooth projective variety $X$ over a number field $K$, its Chow groups $CH^i(X)$ (or at least $CH^i(X)\otimes_{\mathbf Z} \mathbf Q$) are finitely ...
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Motivic L-function vs motivic zeta function
Let $M$ be a pure motive over a field $k$. Roughly speaking, the L-function of $M$ is the product over all primes $p$ of
$$L_p(M,s)=\det(I-Fr_p|_{M_\ell^I} N(p)^{-s})^{-1}$$
where $Fr_p$ is a ...
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Non-algebraic Hecke characters
Algebraic Hecke characters are ubiquitous in modern number theory. They are in 1-1 correspondence with one dimensional complex Galois representations, and in some precise sense they are the building ...
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Number field analog of Artin-Tate $\Rightarrow$ BSD?
What is the difference between the alternating product of the Hasse-Weil $L$-functions of the generic fiber of an arithmetic scheme $X\to\text{Spec}(\mathbf{Z})$ and the zeta function of $X$? (each ...
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Why linearization leads to arithmetization?
Sorry for this question, but I think it is really important the intuition here.
Motives can be seen as the 'best' way of linearizing the study of schemes, des-composing them into "cohomological atoms"...
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How does the conjectural Langlands group fit into the Tannakian point of view?
I've read that one way to formulate the Langlands program is the following:
Let $\mathcal{L}_ {\mathbb{Q}}$ be the conjectural Langlands group. Then the category of semi-simple (continuous) ...
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What is the precise definition of "Hypergeometric motives over $\mathbb{Q}$"?
The question is as in the title, but here is some background:
Section 4 of this paper by Beukers, Cohen and Mellit is called "Hypergeometric motive over $\mathbb{Q}$" but no actual (pure) ...
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Geometric vs combinatorial motives over Spec Z
Consider the category of reduced schemes of finite type over $\mathbb{Z}$. Take the Grothendieck group of this category, i.e. the free abelian group on isomorphism classes, modulo the usual "syzygy" ...
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Why is the category of motives generated by varieties?
I'm reading Ayoub's paper Motifs des varietes analytiques rigides, but I'm not quite familiar with motives. In this paper, he defines the category of motives to be $\mathbf{RigDM}^{\rm eff}_{\rm Nis}(...
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Searching for hypergeometric motives that split
Motivation: It seems that the splitting of a hypergeometric motive is closely related to some highly non-trivial hypergeometric identities discovered by Ramanujan, Guillera et al. The splitting of ...
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Motivic fundamental group of the moduli space of curves?
Suppose I have a smooth projective family of varieties of varieties over $\mathcal M_g$ - i.e. a universal functor, commuting with deformations, from curves to smooth projective varieties. Can I ...
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A Generalization of the Tate-Shafarevich/Tate/Fontaine-Mazur Conjectures
Let $A$ be an abelian variety over a number field $k$. The Tate-Shafarevich conjecture says that the Tate-Shafarevich group of $A$ is finite.
A weakening of this conjecture states that the $\ell$-...
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On Deligne's determinant of motives
This is a question about Deligne's conjecture on special values of L-functions. I have to confess that I've never understood the definition of the determinant which is supposed to give the right ...
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Quadratic twists of 1-motives
Quadratic twists of elliptic curves (or, more generally, abelian varieties) are familiar objects in arithmetic geometry. I would like to extend that definition to the category of 1-motives over global ...
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Solving "a, b, a+b have given divisors" problem
I've read an interesting article, math.NT/0409456 where you're just trying to solve a simple problem:
For a given (finite) set of primes S find all solutions to an equation ...
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$l$-adic periods?
For an algebraic variety $X$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ the comparison isomorphism between Betti and de Rham cohomologies provides the theory of periods with a motivic context whose reformulation as motivic ...
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Relationship between motivic Galois groups and Langlands program [duplicate]
I would like to know if there is any relationship between the motivic Galois groups and the Langlands program.
Many thanks.
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Pure motives and compatible systems of $\ell$-adic representations
I am trying to understand the statement of the conjectures of Deligne on special values of certain $L$-functions, from his article titled, "Valuers de Fonctions L et periodes d'integrales" which ...
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Motives in tropical geometry
Is there a notion of motives in tropical geometry? Similar like the notion introduced by Grothendieck in algebraic geometry.
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Reference request: Tate's conjecture for L functions of motives
What's a good reference for the most general form of Tate's conjecture for the order of poles of the L function of a motive? Thanks!
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$p$-adic realisation of Kummer motive and Frobenius matrix
Suppose $M$ is an object in the abelian category of mixed Tate motives over $\mathbb{Q}$, and it is an extension of $\mathbb{Q}(0)$ by $\mathbb{Q}(1)$
\begin{equation}
0 \rightarrow \mathbb{Q}(1) \...
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Poincare duality for mixed motives
Suppose $k$ is a field of characteristic zero (and we assume it is a number field if necessary). If $U$ is a smooth quasi-projective variety over $k$, then there is Poincare duality,
\begin{equation}
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Generate periods only by smooth varieties
Like explained in this passage that a period is a complex number whose real and imaginary parts are integrations of rational functions over $\mathbb{Q}$ on some $\mathbb{Q}$-semi-algebra set in $\...
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holomorphic continuation of motivic $L$-functions
The question is rather easy to formulate: when is the $L$-function of a pure motive over $\mathbb{Q}$ expected to have a holomorphic (as opposed to simply meromorphic) continuation to the complex ...
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A question on Nekovar's paper Belinson's Conjectures
In Section 2 of Nevovar's paper "Beilinson's Conjectures", for a pure motive $M$ of the form $h^i(X)(n)$ where $X$ is a projective smooth variety over $\mathbb{Q}$ and $n$ is an integer such that the ...
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Is the "L-function of the complex cohomology" of a motive equal to the L-function of its l-adic realization?
Let's say I have a motive in $\mathcal{M}_{num}(K)$ ($K$ a number field). For each prime $l$ there is a realization of this motive in terms of etale cohomology with coefficients in $\mathbb{Q}_l$. ...
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critical values of motives
Hi friends,
I have some questions concerning the critical values of motives, in the sense of Deligne. I will only look at motives of the form $h^i(X)$ where $X$ is a smooth projective algebraic ...
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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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On Abhyankar's results cited in a paper of Manin titled "Correspondences, Motifs and Monoidal Transformations"
Consider the following from this paper "Correspondences, Motifs and Monoidal Transformations" of Manin here.
Theorem. Nonsingular three-dimensional projective unirational varieties $V$ over ...
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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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Do those manifolds atrached to L-functions give rise naturally to motives? [closed]
Edited after Will Sawin's comment:
Consider the set $\mathcal{M}$ of all automorphic L-functions belonging to the Selberg class. Such a set is closed for the product $.$ and the tensor product $\...
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Mixed motives and motivic cohomology
In Scholl's paper "Remarks on special values of $L$-functions", he defines that an object $M$ of $\textbf{MM}_{\mathbb{Q}}$ (the conjectured abelian category of mixed motives with coefficients $\...
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