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The de Rham-Witt complex and p-adic vanishing cycles

Number Theory 2019-08-12 v3 K-Theory and Homology

Abstract

We determine the structure modulo p of the de Rham-Witt complex of a smooth scheme X over a discrete valuation ring of mixed characteristic with log-poles along the special fiber Y and show that the sub-sheaf fixed by the Frobenius is isomorphic to the sheaf of p-adic vanishing cycles. We use this together with results of the second author and Madsen to evaluate the KK-theory with finite coefficients of the quotient field K of the henselian local ring of X at a generic point of Y. The result affirms the Lichtenbaum-Quillen conjecture for the field K.

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@article{arxiv.math/0312497,
  title  = {The de Rham-Witt complex and p-adic vanishing cycles},
  author = {Thomas Geisser and Lars Hesselholt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0312497},
  year   = {2019}
}
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