12th Distinguished Lecture丨Weil etale cohomology and applications

2024-05-08 15:26:55

时间:2024年5月14日(星期二)10:00-11:30

地点:E4-233


主持人:理论科学研究院 赵以庚

主讲人: Thomas Geisser, Rikkyo University

主讲人简介:Thomas Geisser is a Professor at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the University of Münster with a PhD in 1994 under the supervision of Christopher Deninger. He works in the field of arithmetic geometry, motivic cohomology and algebraic K-theory. He was the recipient of the Sloan Fellowship 2000 and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award 2021.

报告题目:Weil etale cohomology and applications

摘要:It is well known that l-adic cohomology does not yield good cohomology with integral coefficients. In the early 2000s, Lichtenbaum proposed the definition of cohomology groups, called Weil-etale cohomology, with better properties. We explain the definition of Weil-etale cohomology for varieties over finite fields, and its relationship to etale cohomology. As applications we discuss how Weil-etale cohomology allows nicer formulas for special values of zeta-functions over finite fields, and for the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture over function fields.