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Kato conjecture and motivic cohomology over finite fields

Algebraic Geometry 2009-10-16 v1

Abstract

For an arithmetical scheme X, K. Kato introduced a certain complex of Gersten-Bloch-Ogus type whose component in degree a involves Galois cohomology groups of the residue fields of all the points of X of dimension a. He stated a conjecture on its homology generalizing the fundamental exact sequences for Brauer groups of global fields. We prove the conjecture over a finite field assuming resolution of singularities. Thanks to a recently established result on resolution of singularities for embedded surfaces, it implies the unconditional vanishing of the homology up to degree 4 for X projective smooth over a finite field. We give an application to finiteness questions for some motivic cohomology groups over finite fields.

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@article{arxiv.0910.2815,
  title  = {Kato conjecture and motivic cohomology over finite fields},
  author = {Uwe Jannsen and Shuji Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2815},
  year   = {2009}
}

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38 pages