Rational isomorphisms between K-theories and cohomology theories

The well known isomorphism relating the rational algebraic K-theory groups and the rational motivic cohomology groups of a smooth variety over a field of characteristic 0 is shown to be realized by a map (the Segre map) of infinite loop spaces. Moreover, the associated Chern character map on rational homotopy groups is shown to be a ring isomorphism. A technique is introduced that establishes a useful general criterion for a natural transformation of functors on quasi-projective complex varieties to induce a homotopy equivalence of semi-topological singular complexes. Since semi-topological K-theory and morphic cohomology can be formulated as the semi-topological singular complexes associated to algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology, this criterion provides a rational isomorphism between the semi-topological K-theory groups and the morphic cohomology groups of a smooth complex variety. Consequences include a Riemann-Roch theorem for the Chern character on semi-topological K-theory and an interpretation of the topological filtration on singular cohomology groups in K-theoretic terms.     

Motivic cohomology of the simplicial motive of a Rost variety

We compute the motivic cohomology groups of the simplicial motive X_θ of a Rost variety for an n-symbol θ in Galois cohomology of a field. As an application we compute the kernel and cokernel of multiplication by θ in Galois cohomology. We also show that the reduced norm map on K₂ of a division algebra of square-free degree is injective.     

Weights in arithmetic geometry

The concept of weights on the cohomology of algebraic varieties was initiated by fundamental ideas and work of A. Grothendieck and P. Deligne. It is deeply connected with the concept of motives and appeared first on the singular cohomology as the weights of (possibly mixed) Hodge structures and on the etale cohomology as the weights of eigenvalues of Frobenius. But weights also appear on algebraic fundamental groups and in p-adic Hodge theory, where they become only visible after applying the comparison functors of Fontaine. After rehearsing various versions of weights, we explain some more recent applications of weights, e.g. to Hasse principles and the computation of motivic cohomology, and discuss some open questions.     

The Geisser-Levine method revisited and algebraic cycles over a finite field

We reformulate part of the arguments of T. Geisser and M. Levine relating motivic cohomology with finite coefficients to truncated étale cohomology with finite coefficients [9,10]. This reformulation amounts to a uniqueness theorem for motivic cohomology, and shows that the Geisser-Levine method can be applied generally to compare motivic cohomology with other types of cohomology theories. We apply this to prove an equivalence between conjectures of Tate and Beilinson on cycles in characteristic p and a vanishing conjecture for continuous étale cohomology. Received: 23 November 2000 / Published online: 5 September 2002     

Finiteness theorems for the shifted Witt and higher Grothendieck–Witt groups of arithmetic schemes

For smooth varieties over finite fields, we prove that the shifted (aka derived) Witt groups of surfaces are finite and the higher Grothendieck–Witt groups (aka Hermitian K-theory) of curves are finitely generated. For more general arithmetic schemes, we give conditional results, for example, finite generation of the motivic cohomology groups implies finite generation of the Grothendieck–Witt groups.     

Techniques,computations, and conjectures for semi-topological <Emphasis Type="Italic">K</Emphasis>-theory

We establish the existence of an Atiyah-Hirzebruch-like spectral sequence relating the morphic cohomology groups of a smooth, quasi-projective complex variety to its semi-topological K-groups. This spectral sequence is compatible with (and, indeed, is built from) the motivic spectral sequence that relates the motivic cohomology and algebraic K-theory of varieties, and it is also compatible with the classical Atiyah-Hirzebruch spectral sequence in algebraic topology. In the second part of this paper, we use this spectral sequence in conjunction with another computational tool that we introduce — namely, a variation on the integral weight filtration of the Borel-Moore (singular) homology of complex varieties introduced by H. Gillet and C. Soulé – to compute the semi-topological K-theory of a large class of varieties. In particular, we prove that for curves, surfaces, toric varieties, projective rational three-folds, and related varieties, the semi-topological K-groups and topological K-groups are isomorphic in all degrees permitted by cohomological considerations. We also formulate integral conjectures relating semi-topological K-theory to topological K-theory analogous to more familiar conjectures (namely, the Quillen-Lichtenbaum and Beilinson-Lichtenbaum Conjectures) concerning mod-n algebraic K-theory and motivic cohomology. In particular, we prove a local vanishing result for morphic cohomology which enables us to formulate precisely a conjectural identification of morphic cohomology by A. Suslin. Our computations verify that these conjectures hold for the list of varieties above.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 19E20, 19E15, 14F43The first author was partially supported by the NSF and the NSAThe second author was supported by the Helen M. Galvin Fellowship of Northwestern UniversityThe third author was partially supported by the NSF and the NSA     

Suite spectrale d'Adams et invariants cohomologiques des formes quadratiques

For any field k of characteristic 0 the Adams spectral sequence for the sphere spectrum based on Suslin-Voevodsky modulo 2 motivic cohomology [8] converges to the graded ring associated to the filtration of the Grothendieck-Witt ring of quadratic forms over k by powers of the ideal generated by even-dimensional forms. Moreover, some property of the modulo 2 motivic cohomology of k, which is a consequence of Voevodsky 's proof of Milnor's conjecture on modulo 2 Galois cohomology of k [9], implies that the spectral sequence degenerates in the critical area. This allows us to give a new proof of the Milnor conjecture on the graded ring of the Witt ring of k [4] which differs from [11].     

Explicit weight two motivic cohomology complexes and algebraicK-theory

Beilinsonet al.'s motivic cohomology complex is related to a motivic complex (considered earlier by Lichtenbaum) formed using groups related to the scissors congruence groups. This involves an algebraic study of configurations of lines in projective spaces. One thereby obtains a more precise relationship between the cohomology of Beilinson's complex and lower dimensionalK-groups. Most of the proofs omitted in Beilinsonet al. are supplied here. There is also a list of certain torsional elements of the thirdK-group for fields between the rationals and the real cyclotomics.     

Cohomology of arithmetic groups and periods of automorphic forms

We recall some unusual features of the cohomology of arithmetic groups, and propose that they are explained by a hidden action of certain motivic cohomology groups.     

Oriented Cohomology Theories of Algebraic Varieties

This article contains proofs of the results announced by Panin and Smirnov (http://www. math.uiuc.edu/k-theory/0459/2000) in the part concerning general properties of oriented cohomology theories of algebraic varieties. It is constructed one-to-one correspondences between orientations, Chern structures and Thom structures on a given ring cohomology theory. The theory is illustrated by motivic cohomology, algebraic K-theory, algebraic cobordism theory and by other examples.     

Log-Syntomic Regulators and p-Adic Polylogarithms

The purpose of this paper is to show that under the syntomic regulator map from the motivic cohomology to the syntomic cohomology of the integer ring of a cyclotomic field, the image of Beilinson's element is a special value of the p-adic polylogarithm.     

Higher Intersection Theory on Algebraic Stacks: I

In this paper and the sequel we establish a theory of Chow groups and higher Chow groups on algebraic stacks locally of finite type over a field and establish their basic properties. This includes algebraic stacks in the sense of Deligne–Mumford as well as Artin. An intrinsic difference between our approach and earlier approaches is that the higher Chow groups of Bloch enter into our theory early on and depends heavily on his fundamental work. Our theory may be more appropriately called the (Lichtenbaum) motivic homology and cohomology of algebraic stacks. One of the main themes of these papers is that such a motivic homology does provide a reasonable intersection theory for algebraic stacks (of finite type over a field), with several key properties holding integrally and extending to stacks locally of finite type. While several important properties of our higher Chow groups, like covariance for projective representable maps (that factor as the composition of a closed immersion into the projective space associated to a locally free coherent sheaf and the obvious projection), an intersection pairing and contravariant functoriality for all smooth algebraic stacks, are shown to hold integrally, our theory works best with rational coefficients.The main results of Part I are the following. The higher Chow groups are defined in general with respect to an atlas, but are shown to be independent of the choice of the atlas for smooth stacks if one uses finite coefficients with torsion prime to the characteristics or in general for Deligne–Mumford stacks. (Using some results on motivic cohomology, we extend this integrally to all smooth algebraic stacks in Part II.) Using cohomological descent, we extend Bloch's fundamental localization sequence for quasi-projective schemes to long exact localization sequences of the higher Chow groups modulo torsion for all Artin stacks: this is one of the main results of the paper. We show that these higher Chow groups modulo torsion are covariant for all proper representable maps between stacks of finite type while being contravariant for all representable flat maps and, in Part II, that they are independent of the choice of an atlas for all stacks of finite type over the given field k. The comparison with motivic cohomology, as is worked out in Part II, enables us to provide an explicit comparison of our theory for quotient stacks associated to actions of linear algebraic groups on quasi-projective schemes with the corresponding Totaro–Edidin–Graham equivariant intersection theory. As an application of our theory we compute the higher Chow groups of Deligne–Mumford stacks and show that they are isomorphic modulo torsion to the higher Chow groups of their coarse moduli spaces. As a by-product of our theory we also produce localization sequences in (integral) higher Chow groups for all schemes locally of finite type over a field: these higher Chow groups are defined as the Zariski hypercohomology with respect to the cycle complex.     

Brown–Peterson Cohomology from Morava K-Theory

We give some structure to the Brown–Peterson cohomology (or its p-completion) of a wide class of spaces. The class of spaces are those with Morava K-theory even-dimensional. We can say that the Brown–Peterson cohomology is even-dimensional (concentrated in even degrees) and is flat as a BP*-module for the category of finitely presented BP*(BP)-modules. At first glance this would seem to be a very restricted class of spaces but the world abounds with naturally occurring examples: Eilenberg-Mac Lane spaces, loops of finite Postnikov systems, classifying spaces of most finite groups whose Morava K-theory is known (including the symmetric groups), QS²ⁿ, BO(n), MO(n), BO, Im J, etc. We finish with an explicit algebraic construction of the Brown–Peterson cohomology of a product of Eilenberg–Mac Lane spaces and a general Künneth isomorphism applicable to our situation.     

The Riemann–Roch theorem without denominators in motivic homotopy theory

The Riemann–Roch theorem without denominators for the Chern class maps on higher algebraic K-groups with values in motivic cohomology groups in the context of motivic homotopy theory is proved.     

Algebraic K-theory of groups wreath product with finite groups

The Farrell-Jones Fibered Isomorphism Conjecture for the stable topological pseudoisotopy theory has been proved for several classes of groups. For example, for discrete subgroups of Lie groups [F.T. Farrell, L.E. Jones, Isomorphism conjectures in algebraic K-theory, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1993) 249-297], virtually poly-infinite cyclic groups [F.T. Farrell, L.E. Jones, Isomorphism conjectures in algebraic K-theory, J. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1993) 249-297], Artin braid groups [F.T. Farrell, S.K. Roushon, The Whitehead groups of braid groups vanish, Internat. Math. Res. Notices 10 (2000) 515-526], a class of virtually poly-surface groups [S.K. Roushon, The isomorphism conjecture for 3-manifold groups and K-theory of virtually poly-surface groups, math.KT/0408243, K-Theory, in press] and virtually solvable linear group [F.T. Farrell, P.A. Linnell, K-Theory of solvable groups, Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 87 (2003) 309-336]. We extend these results in the sense that if G is a group from the above classes then we prove the conjecture for the wreath product G?H for H a finite group. The need for this kind of extension is already evident in [F.T. Farrell, S.K. Roushon, The Whitehead groups of braid groups vanish, Internat. Math. Res. Notices 10 (2000) 515-526; S.K. Roushon, The Farrell-Jones isomorphism conjecture for 3-manifold groups, math.KT/0405211, K-Theory, in press; S.K. Roushon, The isomorphism conjecture for 3-manifold groups and K-theory of virtually poly-surface groups, math.KT/0408243, K-Theory, in press]. We also prove the conjecture for some other classes of groups.     

Rigidity for orientable functors

In the following paper we introduce the notion of orientable functor (orientable cohomology theory) on the category of projective smooth schemes and define a family of transfer maps. Applying this technique, we prove that with finite coefficients orientable cohomology of a projective variety is invariant with respect to the base-change given by an extension of algebraically closed fields. This statement generalizes the classical result of Suslin, concerning algebraic K-theory of algebraically closed fields. Besides K-theory, we treat such examples of orientable functors as etale cohomology, motivic cohomology, algebraic cobordism. We also demonstrate a method to endow algebraic cobordism with multiplicative structure and Chern classes.     

ON THE STRUCTURE OF COHOMOLOGY RINGS OF p-NILPOTENT LIE ALGEBRAS

In this paper the authors investigate the structure of the restricted Lie algebra cohomology of p-nilpotent Lie algebras with trivial p-power operation. Our study is facilitated by a spectral sequence whose E ₂-term is the tensor product of the symmetric algebra on the dual of the Lie algebra with the ordinary Lie algebra cohomology and converges to the restricted cohomology ring. In many cases this spectral sequence collapses, and thus, the restricted Lie algebra cohomology is Cohen–Macaulay. A stronger result involves the collapsing of the spectral sequence and the cohomology ring identifying as a ring with the E ₂-term. We present criteria for the collapsing of this spectral sequence and provide some examples where the ring isomorphism fails. Furthermore, we show that there are instances when the spectral sequence does not collapse and yields cohomology rings which are not Cohen-Macaulay.     

The spectral sequence relating algebraic K-theory to motivic cohomology

Beginning with the Bloch-Lichtenbaum exact couple relating the motivic cohomology of a field F to the algebraic K-theory of F, the authors construct a spectral sequence for any smooth scheme X over F whose E₂ term is the motivic cohomology of X and whose abutment is the Quillen K-theory of X. A multiplicative structure is exhibited on this spectral sequence. The spectral sequence is that associated to a tower of spectra determined by consideration of the filtration of coherent sheaves on X by codimension of support.     

K-Theory of Surfaces at the Prime 2

We prove that for smooth surfaces over real closed fields, and a class of smooth projective surfaces over a real number field, the map between mod 2 algebraic and étale K-theory is an isomorphism in sufficiently large degrees. For a class of smooth projective surfaces over a real closed field, including rational surfaces, complete intersections and K3-surfaces over the real numbers, we explicate the abutment of the mod 2 motivic cohomology to algebraic K-theory spectral sequence.     

Construction inconditionnelle de groupes de Galois motiviquesAn unconditional construction of motivic Galois groups

We attach to any “classical” Weil cohomology theory over a field a motivic Galois group, defined up to an inner automorphism. We also study the specialisation of numerical motives and the behaviour of motivic Galois group by specialisation. To cite this article: Y. André, B. Kahn, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 334 (2002) 989–994.