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The Betti numbers of many (complex) moduli spaces have been computed by counting points over finite fields, using the Weil conjectures, as proved by Deligne, and comparison theorems for étale and sing …

By a family of gerbes you mean, I suppose, a gerbe over $X \times \mathbb A^{1}$. In any case, it has a class in $\mathrm H^0(\mathbb A^1, \mathrm R^2 \mathrm{pr}_{2*}\mathbb G_{\rm m})$. Since $\math …

1. The argument seems to work fine in positive characteristic. 2. In Grothendieck's convention, the projectivization of vector bundle is defined with 1-dimensional quotients, and not 1-dimensional su …

This is true, if you take étale cohomology with coefficients in a finite abelian group of order not divisible by the characteristic. You can embed $Y$ in the corresponding line bundle $L \to X$. Then …

The standard example is a copy of $\mathbb A^1_k$, where $k$ is an algebraically closed field, with two points glued. In algebraic terms, $X = \mathop{\rm Spec}R$, where $R := k[x,y]/(y^2 - x^3 + x^2) …

You are absolutely right, it is a sheaf, you can glue local automorphisms.

The answer is more or less as Jason says, but the proof is very easy, and does not require any cohomological machinery. If $P \to X$ is a $G$-torsor, then $P/G' \to X$ is a $G''$-torsor, hence it is Z …

Consider your functor from étale coverings to locally constant constructible sheaves. It is fully faithful, by Yoneda's lemma. The fact that it is essentially surjective follows from descent theory. I …

I think that the following might work. Let $X_0$ be a reduced scheme over a field $k$ of characteristic $p > 0$, and let $X$ be the product of $X_0$ with the ring of dual numbers $k[\epsilon]$. Then $ …

I don't think so. Let $X$ be $\mathbb A^1_{\mathbb C}$ with two points glued together, and let $Y$ be the standard double étale cover, obtained by identifying two copies of $\mathbb A^1$. I claim that …

If $L/K$ is a Galois extension, then one can define a site in which the objects are intermediate fields $K \subseteq E \subseteq L$ which are finite over $K$. Or, you can take finite étale algebras $A …