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In this short note, we point out how some new cases of Hochster's direct summand conjecture can be deduced from fundamental theorems in p-adic Hodge theory due to Faltings. The cases tackled include the ones when the ramification of the map…

Building on his reduction to the case of an unramified complete regular local ring R of mixed characteristic, we propose a proof in the framework of P. Scholze's perfectoid theory. The main ingredients are the perfectoid "Abhyankar lemma"…

We extend Faltings's "almost purity theorem" on finite etale extensions of perfectoid algebras (as generalized by Scholze and Kedlaya-Liu) to the ramified case, without restriction on the discriminant. The key point is a perfectoid version…

This is release 7.5 of our project, aiming to provide a complete treatment of the foundations of almost ring theory, following and extending Faltings's method of "almost etale extensions". The central result is the "almost purity theorem",…

In the central theorem of this article we prove the following: if $R$ is a complete regular local ring and $B$ is the integral closure of $R$ in the algebraic closure of the fraction field of $R$, then $\Hom_R(B, R) \neq 0$. Our proof of…

We present a more general (parametric-) homological characterization of the Direct Summand Theorem. Specifically, we state two new conjectures: the Socle-Parameter conjecture (SPC) in its weak and strong forms. We give a proof for the week…

In 1998 Kleinbock conjectured that any set of weighted badly approximable $d\times n$ real matrices is a winning subset in the sense of Schmidt's game. In this paper we prove this conjecture in full for vectors in $\mathbf{R}^d$ in…

We discuss Ray Heitmann's recent proof of the Direct Summand Conjecture in dimension 3 in mixed characteristic. This paper contains a discussion of his methods, a proof of the theorem, and a direct proof of the Canonical Element Conjecture…

We prove a version of weakly functorial big Cohen-Macaulay algebras that suffices to establish Hochster-Huneke's vanishing conjecture for maps of Tor in mixed characteristic. As a corollary, we prove an analog of Boutot's theorem that…

This article deals with two different problems in commutative algebra. In the first part, we give a proof of generalized forms of the Direct Summand Theorem (DST (or DCS)) for module-finite extension rings of mixed characteristic $R\subset…

In this paper, we prove that a complete Noetherian local domain of mixed characteristic $p>0$ with perfect residue field has an integral extension that is an integrally closed, almost Cohen-Macaulay domain such that the Frobenius map is…

This is a Bourbaki report on the work of Y. Andr\'e on the direct summand conjecture, and subsequent developments by Andr\'e and Bhatt on big Cohen-Macaulay algebras.

Given a perfectoid field, we find an elementary extension and a henselian defectless valuation on it, whose value group is divisible and whose residue field is an elementary extension of the tilt. This specializes to the almost purity…

The goal of this paper is to describe an elementary combinatorial heuristic that predicts Hardy and Littlewood's extended Goldbach's conjecture. We examine common features of other heuristics in additive prime number theory, such as…

We show that a principally polarized abelian variety over a field $k$ is, as an abelian variety, a direct summand of a product of Jacobians of curves which contain a $k$-point if and only if the polarization and the minimal class are both…

In a previous paper, we stated a general almost purity theorem in the style of Faltings: if R is a ring for which the Frobenius maps on finite p-typical Witt vectors over R are surjective, then the integral closure of R in a finite \'etale…

For an arbitrary self-adjoint operator $B$ in a Hilbert space $H$, we present direct and inverse theorems establishing the relationship between the degree of smoothness of a vector $x \in H$ with respect to the operator $B$, the rate of…

In this paper we extend the scope of three important results of the linear theory of absolutely summing operators. The first one was proved by Bu and Kranz in \cite{BK} and it asserts that a continuous linear operator between Banach spaces…

Combining recent results on noetherianity of twisted commutative algebras by Draisma and the resolution of Stillman's conjecture by Ananyan-Hochster, we prove a broad generalization of Stillman's conjecture. Our theorem yields an array of…

We improve a global approximation result by Al Taylor in C^n for holomorphic functions in weighted Hilbert spaces. The main tools are a variation of the theorem of Hormander on weighted L^2-estimates for the dbar-equation together with the…