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Homotopy coherent Gysin functoriality

Algebraic Geometry 2026-05-05 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

We construct homotopy coherent Gysin pullbacks for weak Borel-Moore theories on smooth schemes, addressing the higher coherence problem for Gysin morphisms associated with closed immersions and lci-type factorizations. The construction uses the higher deformation spaces of Dubouloz-Mayeux attached to flags of closed immersions, from which we build higher Gysin simplices and their simplicial identities up to contractible choices. A rigidification procedure then turns this coherent system into a strict contravariant simplicial functor extending both smooth pullbacks and closed-immersion Gysin morphisms. As an application, we prove a representability theorem for Rost-Schmid complexes associated with homodules over general noetherian excellent bases: these complexes form weak Borel-Moore theories, and hence are represented by motivic objects obtained from the main construction.

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@article{arxiv.2605.01855,
  title  = {Homotopy coherent Gysin functoriality},
  author = {Frédéric Déglise and Niels Feld and Fangzhou Jin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.01855},
  year   = {2026}
}

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224 pages. Comments welcome

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