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Kiran S. Kedlaya

Publications and source records attributed to Kiran S. Kedlaya.

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arXiv2015

Convergence polygons for connections on nonarchimedean curves

This is a survey article on ordinary differential equations over nonarchimedean fields based on the author's lecture at the 2015 Simons Symposium on nonarchimedean and tropical geometry. Topics include: the convergence polygon associated to a differential equation (or a connection on a curve); links to the formal classification of differential equations (Turrittin-Levelt); index formulas for de Rham cohomology of connections; ramification of finite morphisms; relations with the Oort lifting problem on automorphisms of curves. The appendices include some new technical results and an extensive thematic bibliography.

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arXiv2015

Noetherian properties of Fargues-Fontaine curves

We establish that the extended Robba rings associated to a perfect nonarchimedean field of characteristic p, which arise in p-adic Hodge theory as certain completed localizations of the ring of Witt vectors, are strongly noetherian Banach rings; that is, the completed polynomial ring in any number of variables over such a Banach ring is noetherian. This enables Huber's theory of adic spaces to be applied to such rings. We also establish that rational localizations of these rings are principal ideal domains and that etale covers of these rings (in the sense of Huber) are Dedekind domains.

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arXiv2015

The Hochschild-Serre property for some p-adic analytic group actions

Let $H \subseteq G$ be an inclusion of $p$-adic Lie groups. When $H$ is normal or even subnormal in $G$, the Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence implies that any continuous $G$-module whose $H$-cohomology vanishes in all degrees also has vanishing $G$-cohomology. With an eye towards applications in $p$-adic Hodge theory, we extend this to some cases where $H$ is not subnormal, assuming that the $G$-action is analytic in the sense of Lazard.

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arXiv2015

An application of the effective Sato-Tate conjecture

Based on the Lagarias-Odlyzko effectivization of the Chebotarev density theorem, Kumar Murty gave an effective version of the Sato-Tate conjecture for an elliptic curve conditional on analytic continuation and Riemann hypothesis for the symmetric power $L$-functions. We use Murty's analysis to give a similar conditional effectivization of the generalized Sato-Tate conjecture for an arbitrary motive. As an application, we give a conditional upper bound of the form $O((\log N)^2 (\log \log 2N)^2)$ for the smallest prime at which two given rational elliptic curves with conductor at most $N$ have Frobenius traces of opposite sign.

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arXiv2015

Relative p-adic Hodge theory: Foundations

We describe a new approach to relative p-adic Hodge theory based on systematic use of Witt vector constructions and nonarchimedean analytic geometry in the style of both Berkovich and Huber. We give a thorough development of phi-modules over a relative Robba ring associated to a perfect Banach ring of characteristic p, including the relationship between these objects and etale Z_p-local systems and Q_p-local systems on the algebraic and analytic spaces associated to the base ring, and the relationship between etale cohomology and phi-cohomology. We also make a critical link to mixed characteristic by exhibiting an equivalence of tensor categories between the finite etale algebras over an arbitrary perfect Banach algebra over a nontrivially normed complete field of characteristic p and the finite etale algebras over a corresponding Banach Q_p-algebra. This recovers the homeomorphism between the absolute Galois groups of F_p((pi)) and Q_p(mu_{p^infty}) given by the field of norms construction of Fontaine and Wintenberger, as well as generalizations considered by Andreatta, Brinon, Faltings, Gabber, Ramero, Scholl, and most recently Scholze. Using Huber's formalism of adic spaces and Scholze's formalism of perfectoid spaces, we globalize the constructions to give several descriptions of the etale local systems on analytic spaces over p-adic fields. One of these descriptions uses a relative version of the Fargues-Fontaine curve.

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arXiv2015

New methods for (phi, Gamma)-modules

We provide new proofs of two key results of p-adic Hodge theory: the Fontaine-Wintenberger isomorphism between Galois groups in characteristic 0 and characteristic p, and the Cherbonnier-Colmez theorem on decompletion of (phi, Gamma)-modules. These proofs are derived from joint work with Liu on relative p-adic Hodge theory, and are closely related to Scholze's study of perfectoid algebras and spaces.

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arXiv2014

Sato-Tate groups of genus 2 curves

We describe the analogue of the Sato-Tate conjecture for an abelian variety over a number field; this predicts that the zeta functions of the reductions over various finite fields, when properly normalized, have a limiting distribution predicted by a certain group-theoretic construction related to Hodge theory, Galois images, and endomorphisms. After making precise the definition of the "Sato-Tate group" appearing in this conjecture, we describe the classification of Sato-Tate groups of abelian surfaces due to Fite-Kedlaya-Rotger-Sutherland. (These are notes from a three-lecture series presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Arithmetic of Hyperelliptic Curves" held in Ohrid (Macedonia) August 25-September 5, 2014, and are expected to appear in a proceedings volume.)

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arXiv2014

A heuristic for the distribution of point counts for random curves over a finite field

How many rational points are there on a random algebraic curve of large genus $g$ over a given finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$? We propose a heuristic for this question motivated by a (now proven) conjecture of Mumford on the cohomology of moduli spaces of curves; this heuristic suggests a Poisson distribution with mean $q+1+1/(q-1)$. We prove a weaker version of this statement in which $g$ and $q$ tend to infinity, with $q$ much larger than $g$.

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arXiv2014

Almost purity and overconvergent Witt vectors

In a previous paper, we stated a general almost purity theorem in the style of Faltings: if R is a ring for which the Frobenius maps on finite p-typical Witt vectors over R are surjective, then the integral closure of R in a finite étale extension of R[p^{-1}] is "almost" finite étale over R. Here, we use almost purity to lift the finite étale extension of R[p^{-1}] to a finite étale extension of rings of overconvergent Witt vectors. The point is that no hypothesis of p-adic completeness is needed; this result thus points towards potential global analogues of p-adic Hodge theory. As an illustration, we construct (phi, Gamma)-modules associated to Artin Motives over Q. The (phi, Gamma)-modules we construct are defined over a base ring which seems well-suited to generalization to a more global setting; we plan to pursue such generalizations in later work.

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arXiv2014

On the Witt vector Frobenius

We study the kernel and cokernel of the Frobenius map on the $p$-typical Witt vectors of a commutative ring, not necessarily of characteristic $p$. We give some equivalent conditions to surjectivity of the Frobenus map on both finite and infinite length Witt vectors; the former condition turns out to be stable under certain integral extensions, a fact which relates closely to a generalization of Faltings's almost purity theorem.

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arXiv2014

Local and global structure of connections on nonarchimedean curves

Consider a vector bundle with connection on a p-adic analytic curve in the sense of Berkovich. We collect some improvements and refinements of recent results on the structure of such connections, and on the convergence of local horizontal sections. This builds on work from the author's 2010 book and on subsequent improvements by Baldassarri and Poineau-Pulita.

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arXiv2013

Cohomology of arithmetic families of (phi,Gamma)-modules

We prove the finiteness and compatibility with base change of the (phi,Gamma)-cohomology and the Iwasawa cohomology of arithmetic families of (phi,Gamma)-modules. Using this finiteness theorem, we show that a family of Galois representations that is densely pointwise refined in the sense of Mazur is actually trianguline as a family over a large subspace. In the case of the Coleman-Mazur eigencurve, we determine the behavior at all points.

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arXiv2012

An algebraic Sato-Tate group and Sato-Tate conjecture

We make explicit a construction of Serre giving a definition of an algebraic Sato-Tate group associated to an abelian variety over a number field, which is conjecturally linked to the distribution of normalized L-factors as in the usual Sato-Tate conjecture for elliptic curves. The connected part of the algebraic Sato-Tate group is closely related to the Mumford-Tate group, but the group of components carries additional arithmetic information. We then check that in many cases where the Mumford-Tate group is completely determined by the endomorphisms of the abelian variety, the algebraic Sato-Tate group can also be described explicitly in terms of endomorphisms. In particular, we cover all abelian varieties (not necessarily absolutely simple) of dimension at most 3; this result figures prominently in the analysis of Sato-Tate groups for abelian surfaces given recently by Fite, Kedlaya, Rotger, and Sutherland.

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arXiv2012

The probability that a complete intersection is smooth

Given a smooth subscheme of a projective space over a finite field, we compute the probability that its intersection with a fixed number of hypersurface sections of large degree is smooth of the expected dimension. This generalizes the case of a single hypersurface, due to Poonen. We use this result to give a probabilistic model for the number of rational points of such a complete intersection. A somewhat surprising corollary is that the number of rational points on a random smooth intersection of two surfaces in projective 3-space is strictly less than the number of points on the projective line.

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arXiv2012

Nonarchimedean geometry of Witt vectors

Let R be a perfect F_p-algebra, equipped with the trivial norm. Let W(R) be the ring of p-typical Witt vectors over R, equipped with the p-adic norm. At the level of nonarchimedean analytic spaces (in the sense of Berkovich), we demonstrate a close analogy between W(R) and the polynomial ring R[T] equipped with the Gauss norm, in which the role of the structure morphism from R to R[T] is played by the Teichmuller map. For instance, we show that the analytic space associated to R is a strong deformation retract of the space associated to W(R). We also show that each fibre forms a tree under the relation of pointwise comparison, and classify the points of fibres in the manner of Berkovich's classification of points of a nonarchimedean disc. Some results pertain to the study of p-adic representations of etale fundamental groups of nonarchimedean analytic spaces (i.e., relative p-adic Hodge theory).

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arXiv2012

Sato-Tate distributions and Galois endomorphism modules in genus 2

For an abelian surface A over a number field k, we study the limiting distribution of the normalized Euler factors of the L-function of A. This distribution is expected to correspond to taking characteristic polynomials of a uniform random matrix in some closed subgroup of USp(4); this Sato-Tate group may be obtained from the Galois action on any Tate module of A. We show that the Sato-Tate group is limited to a particular list of 55 groups up to conjugacy. We then classify A according to the Galois module structure on the R-algebra generated by endomorphisms of A_Qbar (the Galois type), and establish a matching with the classification of Sato-Tate groups; this shows that there are at most 52 groups up to conjugacy which occur as Sato-Tate groups for suitable A and k, of which 34 can occur for k = Q. Finally, we exhibit examples of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves exhibiting each Galois type (over Q whenever possible), and observe numerical agreement with the expected Sato-Tate distribution by comparing moment statistics.

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arXiv2012

Effective convergence bounds for Frobenius structures on connections

Consider a meromorphic connection on P^1 over a p-adic field. In many cases, such as those arising from Picard-Fuchs equations or Gauss-Manin connections, this connection admits a Frobenius structure defined over a suitable rigid analytic subspace. We give an effective convergence bound for this Frobenius structure by studying the effect of changing the Frobenius lift. We also give some examples indicating that our bound is essentially optimal.

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arXiv2011

A construction of polynomials with squarefree discriminants

For any integer n >= 2 and any nonnegative integers r,s with r+2s = n, we give an unconditional construction of infinitely many monic irreducible polynomials of degree n with integer coefficients having squarefree discriminant and exactly r real roots. These give rise to number fields of degree n, signature (r,s), Galois group S_n, and squarefree discriminant; we may also force the discriminant to be coprime to any given integer. The number of fields produced with discriminant in the range [-N, N] is at least c N^(1/(n-1)). A corollary is that for each n \geq 3, infinitely many quadratic number fields admit everywhere unramified degree n extensions whose normal closures have Galois group A_n. This generalizes results of Yamamura, who treats the case n = 5, and Uchida and Yamamoto, who allow general n but do not control the real place.

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