Weil's Conjecture for Function Fields : Volume I (AMS-199) Hardback
by Dennis Gaitsgory, Jacob Lurie
Part of the Annals of Mathematics Studies series
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A central concern of number theory is the study of local-to-global principles, which describe the behavior of a global field K in terms of the behavior of various completions of K.
This book looks at a specific example of a local-to-global principle: Weil’s conjecture on the Tamagawa number of a semisimple algebraic group G over K.
In the case where K is the function field of an algebraic curve X, this conjecture counts the number of G-bundles on X (global information) in terms of the reduction of G at the points of X (local information).
The goal of this book is to give a conceptual proof of Weil’s conjecture, based on the geometry of the moduli stack of G-bundles.
Inspired by ideas from algebraic topology, it introduces a theory of factorization homology in the setting l-adic sheaves.
Using this theory, Dennis Gaitsgory and Jacob Lurie articulate a different local-to-global principle: a product formula that expresses the cohomology of the moduli stack of G-bundles (a global object) as a tensor product of local factors. Using a version of the Grothendieck-Lefschetz trace formula, Gaitsgory and Lurie show that this product formula implies Weil’s conjecture.
The proof of the product formula will appear in a sequel volume.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
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- Pages:320 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:19/02/2019
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- ISBN:9780691182131
