Purity for flat cohomology
Abstract
We establish the flat cohomology version of the Gabber-Thomason purity for \'{e}tale cohomology: for a complete intersection Noetherian local ring and a commutative, finite, flat -group , the flat cohomology vanishes for . For small , this settles conjectures of Gabber that extend the Grothendieck-Lefschetz theorem and give purity for the Brauer group for schemes with complete intersection singularities. For the proof, we reduce to a flat purity statement for perfectoid rings, establish -complete arc descent for flat cohomology of perfectoids, and then relate to coherent cohomology of via prismatic Dieudonn\'{e} theory. We also present an algebraic version of tilting for \'{e}tale cohomology, use it to reprove the Gabber-Thomason purity, and exhibit general properties of fppf cohomology of (animated) rings with finite, locally free group scheme coefficients, such as excision, agreement with fpqc cohomology, and continuity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.10932,
title = {Purity for flat cohomology},
author = {Kestutis Cesnavicius and Peter Scholze},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10932},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
97 pages; final version, to appear in Annals of Mathematics