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On the motivic description of truncated fundamental group rings

Algebraic Geometry 2024-06-25 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

A topological theorem that appears in a paper by Deligne-Goncharov (and which they attribute to Beilinson) states the following. Let (X,)(X,*) be a path connected pointed space with a reasonable topology and denote by II the augmentation ideal of its fundamental group ring. Then for every field F and positive integer n, the space of F-valued linear forms on I/In+1 I/I^{n+1} is naturally isomorphic to Hn(Xn,X(n,);F)H^n(X^n,X(n,*); F), where X(n,)X(n,*) is an explicitly defined subspace of XnX^n. We here construct a simple isomorphism between I/In+1I/I^{n+1} and Hn(Xn,X(n,);Z)H_n(X^n,X(n,*); \mathbf{Z}) and express the maps that define the Hopf algebra structure on the II-adic completion of the fundamental group ring of (X,)(X,*) in these terms.

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@article{arxiv.2403.03748,
  title  = {On the motivic description of truncated fundamental group rings},
  author = {Eduard Looijenga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03748},
  year   = {2024}
}

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