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Publications and source records attributed to Moritz Kerz.
We prove the claim in the title by showing that a definable Grauert Direct Image Theorem in o-minimal geometry would imply a weak representability-like property of the definable Picard functor. However, this weak representability cannot hold because of the Definable Chow Theorem of Peterzil and Starchenko. v2: small typos corrected.
We prove that an algebraic flat connection has definable flat sections in the analytic exponential structure if and only if it is regular singular with unitary monodromy eigenvalues at infinity, refining previous work of Bakker and Mullane. This provides an o minimal characterisation of classical properties of the Gauss-Manin connection. v2: a few typos removed. Appears in the Laumon Volume, Springer Verlag, Simons subseries.
We formulate and prove a non-abelian analog of Deligne's Fixed Part theorem on Hodge classes, revisiting previous work of Jost--Zuo, Katzarkov--Pantev and Landesman--Litt. To this aim we study algebraically isomonodromic extensions of local systems and we relate them to variations of Hodge structures, for example we show that the Mumford-Tate group at a generic point stays constant in an algebraically isomonodromic extension of a variation of Hodge structure. v2: a few typos ironed and Thm 1.1 5) completed. v3: there was a Schlamassel leading to a mix-up of files. Apologies. Else identical version (one minor change). v5 final version. Appears in Alg. Geom.
We propose a new approach to crystalline cohomology based on the observation that one can lift smooth algebras uniquely "up to coherent homotopy."
We study the geometry and cohomology of Lefschetz pencils for semistable schemes over a discrete valuation ring. We relate the global cohomological properties of the Lefschetz pencil and the monodromy-weight conjecture, in particular we show that if one assumes the monodromy-weight conjecture in smaller dimensions then one can obtain a rather complete understanding of the relative cohomology of the pencil. This reduces the monodromy-weight conjecture to an arithmetic variant of a conjecture of Kashiwara for the projective line.
We prove a Lefschetz hypersurface theorem for abelian fundamental groups allowing wild ramification along some divisor. In fact, we show that isomorphism holds if the degree of the hypersurface is large relative to the ramification along the divisor.
We show that complex local systems with quasi-unipotent monodromy at infinity over a normal complex variety are Zariski dense in their moduli. v2: we waited for feedback and added a consequence of Alexandr Petrov's theorem. 3: we tightened the last section. Final version: appears in Israel Journal of Mathematics. footnote added to Conjecture 1.1: Aaron Landesman and Daniel Litt just made available a preprint showing that there is a lower bound for the rank of geometric local systems with infinite mon-odromy on certain curves, and consequently the conjecture can not be true in this generality.
We show that in positive characteristic special loci of deformation spaces of rank one $\ell$-adic local systems are quasilinear. From this we deduce the Hard Lefschetz theorem for rank one $\ell$-adic local systems and a generic vanishing theorem. Last version: a few typos corrected
We study fundamental properties of analytic $K$-theory of Tate rings such as homotopy invariance, Bass fundamental theorem, Milnor excision, and descent for admissible coverings.
Vorst's conjecture relates the regularity of a ring with the $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy invariance of its $K$-theory. We show a variant of this conjecture in positive characteristic.
We propose a conjecture on the density of arithmetic points in the deformation space of representations of the \'etale fundamental group in positive characteristic. This? conjecture has applications to \'etale cohomology theory, for example it implies a Hard Lefschetz conjecture. We prove the density conjecture in tame degree two for the curve $\mathbb{P}^1\setminus \{0,1,\infty\}$. v2: very small typos corrected.v3: final. Publication in Epiga.
We show that closed subsets of the character variety of a complex variety with negatively weighted homology, which are $p$-adically integral and Galois invariant, are motivic. Final version: Cambridge Journal of Mathematics
We introduce a variant of homotopy K-theory for Tate rings, which we call analytic K-theory. It is homotopy invariant with respect to the analytic affine line viewed as an ind-object of closed disks of increasing radii. Under a certain regularity assumption we prove an analytic analog of the Bass fundamental theorem and we compare analytic K-theory with continuous K-theory, which is defined in terms models. Along the way we also prove some results about the algebraic K-theory of Tate rings.
We suggest an analog of the Bass-Quillen conjecture for smooth affinoid algebras over a complete non-archimedean field. We prove this in the rank-1 case, i.e. for the Picard group. For complete discretely valued fields and regular affinoid algebras that admit a regular model (automatic if the residue characteristic is zero) we prove a similar statement for the Grothendieck group of vector bundles.
We use higher ideles and duality theorems to develop a universal approach to higher dimensional class field theory.
We prove that algebraic K-theory satisfies `pro-descent' for abstract blow-up squares of noetherian schemes. As an application we derive Weibel's conjecture on the vanishing of negative K-groups.
We show that the homotopy invariant algebraic K-theory of Weibel vanishes below the negative of the Krull dimension of a noetherian scheme. This gives evidence for a conjecture of Weibel about vanishing of negative algebraic K-groups.
We study the restriction map to the closed fiber of a regular projective scheme over an excellent henselian discrete valuation ring, for a cohomological version of the Chow group of relative zero-cycles. Our main result extends the work of Saito--Sato to general perfect residue fields.