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Abelian varieties are de Rham $K(\pi,1)$

Algebraic Geometry 2026-01-30 v2

Abstract

Motivated by the work of Esnault-Hai, one has the notion of de Rham K(π,1)K(\pi,1) schemes, defined as follows. Given a smooth proper geometrically connected scheme XX over a field kk of characteristic 0 and a base point xX(k)x \in X (k), one can define its differential fundamental group πdiff(X/k)\pi^{\mathrm{diff}}(X/k), which comes from the Tannakian duality of the category of coherent integrable connections on XX. Using the formalism of δ\delta-functors, one can define natural morphisms between the group-scheme cohomology of πdiff(X/k)\pi^{\mathrm{diff}}(X/k) and the de Rham cohomology of XX. One says that XX with xX(k)x\in X(k) is de Rham K(π,1)K(\pi,1) if such morphisms are all isomorphisms. In this article, we first prove that abelian varieties in characteristic 00 are de Rham K(π,1)K(\pi,1). In the second part of the article, we study the group-scheme cohomology of the abelianization of the differential fundamental group of a smooth proper geometrically connected scheme via its Albanese variety.

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@article{arxiv.2601.01595,
  title  = {Abelian varieties are de Rham $K(\pi,1)$},
  author = {Vo Quoc Bao and Quang-Khai Nguyen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.01595},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

20 pages; comments are welcome; added an assumption to Theorem C, added some details to the proof, the main result remains the same; added references

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