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The second Stiefel-Whitney classes of l-adic cohomology

Algebraic Geometry 2013-08-13 v2

Abstract

For a proper smooth variety of even dimension over a field of characteristic different from 2 or l, the second Stiefel-Whitney class of the l-adic cohomology and the second Hasse-Witt class of the de Rham cohomology are both defined in the second Galois homology. We state a conjecture on their relation and give several evidences.

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@article{arxiv.1012.1922,
  title  = {The second Stiefel-Whitney classes of l-adic cohomology},
  author = {Takeshi Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1922},
  year   = {2013}
}

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