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Is Mazur's analogy between arithmetic and topology formal, in any sense?

For this analogy, like most analogies in mathematics, and indeed like most philosophical principles in mathematics, one can certainly make a part of it formal and rigorous, but I don't think any true ...
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Is there an "arithmetic cobordism category"?

Unfortunately, I think we're still quite far away from knowing the answer to your question. Fortunately, a lot of progress has been made without answering your question. The key advance here was ...
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