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Publications and source records attributed to A. J. Scholl.
We give a proof that the Riemann hypothesis for hypersurfaces over finite fields implies the result for all smooth proper varieties, by a deformation argument which does not use the theory of Lefschetz pencils or the l-adic Fourier transform.
We discuss the relationship between different notions of "integrality" in motivic cohomology/K-theory which arise in the Beilinson and Bloch-Kato conjectures, and prove their equivalence in some cases for products of curves (used in the authors' previous paper in this series), as well as obtaining a general result, first proved by Jannsen (unpublished), which reduces their equivalence to standard conjectures in arithmetic algebraic geometry.
The l-adic parabolic cohomology groups attached to noncongruence subgroups of SL_2(Z) are finite-dimensional representations of Gal(Qbar/F) for some number field F. We exhibit examples (with F=Q) giving rise to Galois representations whose images are open subgroups of the full group of symplectic similitudes (of arbitrary dimension). The determination of the image of the Galois group relies on Katz's classification theorem for reductive subalgebras of gl(N) containing a principal nilpotent element; the paper also contains a short conceptual proof of this theorem, suggested by I. Gronowski.