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Wild Betti sheaves

Algebraic Geometry 2025-06-02 v1 Algebraic Topology Number Theory Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In this note, we consider the problem of constructing an enlargement of the category of Betti sheaves that supports an ``exponential local system'' on R\mathbb R, and a Fourier equivalence defined on all sheaves. We show that there is a universal solution, recovering a construction of Tamarkin known also as ``enhanced sheaves''. The universality property implies that the category of coefficients of this theory is, in a suitable sense, a nontrivial R>0\mathbb R_{>0}-torsor over Spec(Z)\mathrm{Spec}(\mathbb Z).

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@article{arxiv.2505.24599,
  title  = {Wild Betti sheaves},
  author = {Peter Scholze},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.24599},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, note in honour of Gerard Laumon

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