\'Etale contractible varieties in positive characteristic
Algebraic Geometry
2016-01-20 v2
Abstract
Unlike in characteristic 0, there are no non-trivial smooth varieties over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p>0 that are contractible in the sense of etale homotopy theory.
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@article{arxiv.1310.2784,
title = {\'Etale contractible varieties in positive characteristic},
author = {Armin Holschbach and Johannes Schmidt and Jakob Stix},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.2784},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, accepted for publication in Algebra & Number Theory