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Around $\ell$ -independence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2017

Bruno Chiarellotto
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica ‘Tullio Levi-Civita’, Università Degli Studi di Padova, Via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova, Italia email chiarbru@math.unipd.it
Christopher Lazda
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica ‘Tullio Levi-Civita’, Università Degli Studi di Padova, Via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova, Italia email lazda@math.unipd.it

Abstract

In this article we study various forms of $\ell$ -independence (including the case $\ell =p$ ) for the cohomology and fundamental groups of varieties over finite fields and equicharacteristic local fields. Our first result is a strong form of $\ell$ -independence for the unipotent fundamental group of smooth and projective varieties over finite fields. By then proving a certain ‘spreading out’ result we are able to deduce a much weaker form of $\ell$ -independence for unipotent fundamental groups over equicharacteristic local fields, at least in the semistable case. In a similar vein, we can also use this to deduce $\ell$ -independence results for the cohomology of smooth and proper varieties over equicharacteristic local fields from the well-known results on $\ell$ -independence for smooth and proper varieties over finite fields. As another consequence of this ‘spreading out’ result we are able to deduce the existence of a Clemens–Schmid exact sequence for formal semistable families. Finally, by deforming to characteristic $p$ , we show a similar weak version of $\ell$ -independence for the unipotent fundamental group of a semistable curve in mixed characteristic.

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© The Authors 2017 

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