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Ravenel's Global Conjecture is true

Algebraic Topology 2015-11-19 v2 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

I prove Ravenel's 1983 "Global Conjecture" on \Ext1\Ext^1 over the classifying Hopf algebroid of formal AA-modules, equivalently, the first flat cohomology group Hfl1H^1_{fl} of the moduli stack MfmA\mathcal{M}_{fmA} of formal AA-modules. I then show that the Hecke LL-functions of certain Gro{\ss}encharakters of Galois extensions K/QK/\mathbb{Q} can be computed from Hfl1(MfmA)H^1_{fl} (\mathcal{M}_{fmA}), and vice versa; as a consequence I show that, for a large class of Galois extensions of Q\mathbb{Q}, two extensions K,LK,L are arithmetically equivalent (i.e., they have the same Dedekind zeta-function) if and only if the flat cohomology groups Hfl1(MfmOK)H^1_{fl}(\mathcal{M}_{fm\mathcal{O}_K}) and Hfl1(MfmOL)H^1_{fl}(\mathcal{M}_{fm\mathcal{O}_L}) agree.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05288,
  title  = {Ravenel's Global Conjecture is true},
  author = {A. Salch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05288},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Updated with a little more detail on K. Johnson's work on the Local Conjecture

R2 v1 2026-06-22T11:47:06.900Z