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Weil-\'etale cohomology and Zeta-values of proper regular arithmetic schemes

Number Theory 2017-03-02 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We give a conjectural description of the vanishing order and leading Taylor coefficient of the Zeta function of a proper, regular arithmetic scheme X\mathcal{X} at any integer nn in terms of Weil-\'etale cohomology complexes. This extends work of Lichtenbaum \cite{Lichtenbaum05} and Geisser \cite{Geisser04b} for X\mathcal{X} of characteristic pp, of Lichtenbaum \cite{li04} for X=Spec(OF)\mathcal{X}=\mathrm{Spec}(\mathcal{O}_F) and n=0n=0 where FF is a number field, and of the second author for arbitrary X\mathcal{X} and n=0n=0 \cite{Morin14}. We show that our conjecture is compatible with the Tamagawa number conjecture of Bloch, Kato, Fontaine and Perrin-Riou \cite{fpr91} if X\mathcal{X} is smooth over Spec(OF)\mathrm{Spec}(\mathcal{O}_F), and hence that it holds in cases where the Tamagawa number conjecture is known.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01277,
  title  = {Weil-\'etale cohomology and Zeta-values of proper regular arithmetic schemes},
  author = {Matthias Flach and Baptiste Morin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01277},
  year   = {2017}
}

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107 pages