English

1-smooth pro-p groups and Bloch-Kato pro-p groups

Group Theory 2022-05-20 v7 Number Theory

Abstract

Let pp be a prime. A pro-pp group GG is said to be 1-smooth if it can be endowed with a homomorphism of pro-pp groups G1+pZpG\to1+p\mathbb{Z}_p satisfying a formal version of Hilbert 90. By Kummer theory, maximal pro-pp Galois groups of fields containing a root of 1 of order pp, together with the cyclotomic character, are 1-smooth. We prove that a finitely generated pp-adic analytic pro-pp group is 1-smooth if, and only if, it occurs as the maximal pro-pp Galois group of a field containing a root of 1 of order pp. This gives a positive answer to De Clerq-Florence's "Smoothness Conjecture" - which states that the Rost-Voevodsky Theorem (a.k.a. Bloch-Kato Conjecture) follows from 1-smoothness - for the class of finitely generated pp-adic analytic pro-pp groups.

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@article{arxiv.1904.00667,
  title  = {1-smooth pro-p groups and Bloch-Kato pro-p groups},
  author = {Claudio Quadrelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.00667},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

To appear on 'Homology, Homotopy and Applications'. The current version of this paper is only one half of the original paper (versions v1--v4), as the author decided to split the original paper after its rejection from the referred journal which it was submitted to, more than 2 years ago (see Remark 1.2 for details)

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