We prove that a certain class of open homomorphisms between Galois groups of function fields of curves over finite fields arise from embeddings between the function fields.
We survey recent developments in the Birational Anabelian Geometry program aimed at the reconstruction of function fields of algebraic varieties over algebraically closed fields from pieces of their absolute Galois groups.
In this paper we prove a refined version of Uchida's theorem on isomorphisms between absolute Galois groups of global fields in positive characteristics, where one "ignores" the information provided by a "small" set of primes.
Assuming the finiteness of the Shafarevich-Tate group of elliptic curves over number fields we make several observations on the birational Grotendieck anabelian setion conjecture. We prove that the birational setion conjecture for curves over number fields can be reduced to the case of elliptic curves. In this case we prove that, as a consequence of a result of Stoll, a section of the exact sequence of the absolute Galois group of an elliptic curve over a number field arises from a rational point if and only if the induced section of the corresponding (geometrically abelianised) arithmetic fun…
In this paper we generalize an argument of Neukirch from birational anabelian geometry to the case of arithmetic curves. In contrast to the function field case, it seems to be more complicate to describe the position of decomposition groups of points at the boundary of the scheme $\Spec \caO_{K,S}$, where $K$ is a number field and $S$ a set of primes of $K$, intrinsically in terms of the fundamental group. We prove that it is equivalent to give the following pieces of information additionally with the fundamental group $π_1(\Spec \caO_{K,S})$: the location of decomposition groups of boundary p…
We explore connections between birational anabelian geometry and abstract projective geometry. One of the applications is a proof of a version of the birational section conjecture.
Grothendieck gave two forms of his "main conjecture of anabelian geometry", i.e. the section conjecture and the hom conjecture. He stated that these two forms are equivalent and that if they hold for hyperbolic curves then they hold for elementary anabelian varieties too. We state a stronger form of Grothendieck's conjecture (equivalent in the case of curves) and prove that Grothendieck's statements hold for our form of the conjecture. We work with DM stacks, rather than schemes. If $X$ is a DM stack over a field $k\subseteq\mathbb{C}$ finitely generated over $\mathbb{Q}$, we prove that whethe…
Let $(X, D_{X})$ be an arbitrary pointed stable curve of topological type $(g_{X}, n_{X})$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$. We prove that the generalized Hasse-Witt invariants of prime-to-$p$ cyclic admissible coverings of $(X, D_{X})$ attain maximum. As applications, we obtain an anabelian formula for $(g_{X}, n_{X})$, and prove that the field structures associated to inertia subgroups of marked points can be reconstructed group-theoretically from open continuous homomorphisms of admissible fundamental groups. Moreover, the formula for maximum generalized Hasse-Witt…
A birationally liftable Galois section s of a hyperbolic curve X/k over a number field k yields an adelic point x(s) in the smooth completion of X. We show that x(s) is X-integral outside a set of places of Dirichlet density 0, or s is cuspidal. The proof relies on $GL_2(F_\ell)$-quotients of $π_1(U)$ for some open U of X. If k is totally real or imaginary quadratic, we prove that all birationally adelic, non-cuspidal Galois sections come from rational points as predicted by the section conjecture of anabelian geometry. As an aside we also obtain a strong approximation result for rational poin…
We study the problem of describing local components of height functions on abelian varieties over characteristic $0$ local fields as functions on spaces of torsors under various realisations of a $2$-step unipotent motivic fundamental group naturally associated to the defining line bundle. To this end, we present three main theorems giving such a description in terms of the $\mathbb Q_\ell$- and $\mathbb Q_p$-pro-unipotent étale realisations when the base field is $p$-adic, and in terms of the $\mathbb R$-pro-unipotent Betti--de Rham realisation when the base field is archimedean. In the cours…
In this paper, we develop the main step in the global theory for the mod-$\ell$ analogue of Bogomolov's program in birational anabelian geometry for higher-dimensional function fields over algebraically closed fields. More precisely, we show how to reconstruct a function field $K$ of transcendence degree $\geq 5$ over an algebraically closed field, up-to inseparable extensions, from the mod-$\ell$ abelian-by-central Galois group of $K$ endowed with the collection of mod-$\ell$ rational quotients.
Geometric properties of homomorphisms between the absolute Galois groups of mixed-characteristic complete discrete valuation fields with perfect residue fields
This paper is part of an endeavor to define an analogue of the slice filtration in the unstable motivic homotopy category. Our approach was inspired by the fact that the triangulated structures do not play a relevant role for the construction of birational homotopy categories as well as by the work of Kahn-Sujatha \cite{K-theory/0596} on birational motives, where the existence of a connection between the layers of the slice filtration and birational invariants is explicitly suggested. Our main result, shows that there is an equivalence of categories between the orthogonal components for the sl…
We use the specialization homomorphism for the birational automorphism group to study finite order birational automorphisms. For a family of varieties over a DVR, we prove that a birational automorphism of order coprime to the residue characteristic cannot specialize to the identity. As an application, we show that very general $n$-dimensional hypersurfaces of degree $d \geq 5 \lceil (n+3)/6 \rceil$ have no finite order birational automorphisms.
Let $k$ be a field admitting a resolution of singularities. In this paper, we prove that the functor of zeroth $\mathbb{A}^1$-homology $\mathbf{H}^{\mathbb{A}^1}_0$ is universal as a functorial birational invariant of smooth proper $k$-varieties taking values in a category enriched by abelian groups. For a smooth proper $k$-variety $X$, we also prove that the dimension of $\mathbf{H}^{\mathbb{A}^1}_0(X;\mathbb{Q})(\mathrm{Spec} k)$ coincides with the number of $R$-equivalence classes of $X(k)$. We deduce these results as consequences of the structure theorem that for a smooth proper $k$-variet…
We study birational morphisms between smooth projective surfaces that respect a given Poisson structure, with particular attention to induced birational maps between the (Poisson) moduli spaces of sheaves on those surfaces. In particular, to any birational morphism, we associate a corresponding "minimal lift" operation on sheaves of homological dimension <=1, and study its properties. In particular, we show that minimal lift induces a stratification of the moduli space of simple sheaves on the codomain by open subspaces of the moduli space of simple sheaves on the domain, compatibly with the i…
We produce counterexamples to the birational Torelli theorem for Calabi-Yau manifolds in arbitrarily high dimension: this is done by exhibiting a series of non birational pairs of Calabi-Yau $(n^2-1)$-folds which, for $n \geq 2$ even, admit an isometry between their middle cohomologies. These varieties also satisfy an $\mathbb L$-equivalence relation in the Grothendieck ring of varieties, i.e. the difference of their classes annihilates a power of the class of the affine line. We state this last property for a broader class of Calabi-Yau pairs, namely all those which are realized as pushforwar…
We prove that the group of birational transformations of a Del Pezzo fibration of degree 3 over a curve is not simple, by giving a surjective group homomorphism to a free product of infinitely many groups of order 2. As a consequence we also obtain that the Cremona group of rank 3 is not generated by birational maps preserving a rational fibration. Besides, its subgroup generated by all connected algebraic subgroups is a proper normal subgroup.
An MBM class on a hyperkahler manifold M is a second cohomology class such that its orthogonal complement in H^2(M) contains a maximal dimensional face of the boundary of the Kahler cone for some hyperkahler deformation of M. An MBM curve is a rational curve in an MBM class and such that its local deformation space has minimal possible dimension 2n-2, where 2n is the complex dimension of M. We study the MBM loci, defined as the subvarieties covered by deformations of an MBM curve within M. When M is projective, MBM loci are centers of birational contractions. For each MBM class z, we consider …
In this series of papers, we investigate a new anabelian phenomenon of curves over algebraically closed fields of positive characteristic. Let $\overline M_{g, n}$ be the moduli space of curves of type $(g, n)$ over $\overline {\mathbb{F}}_p$. We introduce a topological space $\overline Π_{g, n}$ which can be determined group-theoretically from admissible fundamental groups of pointed stable curves of type $(g, n)$. By introducing a certain equivalence relation $\sim_{fe}$ on the underlying topological space $|\overline M_{g, n}|$ of $\overline M_{g, n}$, we obtain a topological space $\overli…
Burnside rings and volume forms with logarithmic poles
Université Paris Cité, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche(巴黎西岱大学,儒勒·昂里希数学研究所(巴黎左岸));Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques(高等科学研究所);Courant Institute, NYU(纽约大学柯朗数学科学研究所)
We study solutions of a homogeneous quadratic equation $q(x_0,\dots, x_n)=0$, defined over a field $K$, where the $x_i$ are themselves homogeneous polynomials of some degree $d$ in $r+1$ variables. Equivalently, we are looking at rational maps from projective $r$-space $P^r$ to a quadric hypersurface $Q$, defined over a field $K$. The space of maps of $P^1$ to a quadric $Q$ is stably birational to $Q$ if $d$ is even and to the orthogonal Grassmannian of lines in $Q$ if $d$ is odd. Most of the paper is devoted to obtaining similar descriptions for the spaces parametrizing maps of $P^2$ to quadr…
We prove a weak factorization result on birational maps of Deligne-Mumford stacks, and deduce the following: Let $U \subset X$ be an open embedding of smooth Deligne-Mumford stacks such that $D = X-U$ is a normal crossings divisor, then the the simple homotopy type of the boundary complex $Δ(X,D)$ depends only on $U$.
We look at algebraic embeddings of the Cremona group in $n$ variables $Cr_n(C)$ to the group of birational transformations $Bir(M)$ of an algebraic variety $M$. First we study geometrical properties of an example of an embedding of $Cr_2(C)$ into $Cr_5(C)$ that is due to Gizatullin. In a second part, we give a full classification of all algebraic embeddings of $Cr_2(C)$ into $Bir(M)$, where $dim(M)=3$, and generalize this result partially to algebraic embeddings of $Cr_n(C)$ into $Bir(M)$, where $dim(M)=n+1$, for arbitrary $n\geq 2$. In particular, this yields a classification of all algebraic…
We consider the natural A-infinity structure on the Ext-algebra $Ext^*(G,G)$ associated with the coherent sheaf $G={\cal O}_C\oplus {\cal O}_{p_1}\oplus...\oplus {\cal O}_{p_n}$ on a smooth projective curve $C$, where $p_1,...,p_n\in C$ are distinct points. We study the homotopy class of the product $m_3$. Assuming that $h^0(p_1+...+p_n)=1$ we prove that $m_3$ is homotopic to zero if and only if $C$ is hyperelliptic and the points $p_i$ are Weierstrass points. In the latter case we show that $m_4$ is not homotopic to zero, provided the genus of $C$ is at least 2. In the case $n=g$ we prove tha…
Let $M$ be an irreducible holomorphically symplectic manifold. We show that all faces of the Kahler cone of $M$ are hyperplanes $H_i$ orthogonal to certain homology classes, called monodromy birationally minimal (MBM) classes. Moreover, the Kahler cone is a connected component of a complement of the positive cone to the union of all $H_i$. We provide several characterizations of the MBM-classes. We show the invariance of MBM property by deformations, as long as the class in question stays of type (1,1). For hyperkahler manifolds with Picard group generated by a negative class $z$, we prove tha…