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\'Etale cohomology of Stein algebras

Complex Variables 2026-04-08 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We prove that the singular cohomology with finite coefficients of a finite-dimensional Stein space SS is isomorphic to the \'etale cohomology of the Stein algebra O(S)\mathcal{O}(S). We deduce that any class in Hk(S,Z)H^k(S,\mathbb{Z}) comes from an algebraic variety by pullback by a holomorphic map (if k1k\geq 1), and vanishes on the complement of a nowhere dense closed analytic subset of SS (if k2k\geq 2).

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@article{arxiv.2604.05625,
  title  = {\'Etale cohomology of Stein algebras},
  author = {Olivier Benoist},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05625},
  year   = {2026}
}

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