Mixed Motives and Algebraic K-Theory

The relations that could or should exist between algebraic cycles, algebraic K-theory, and the cohomology of - possibly singular - varieties, are the topic of investigation of this book. The author proceeds in an axiomatic way, combining the concepts of t

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UweJannsen

Mixed Motives and Algebraic K-Theory

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UweJannsen Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik Gottfried-Claren-Str. 26 5300 Bonn 3, Federal Republic of Germany

Mathematics Subject Classification (1980): Primary: 14A20, 14C30, 14G13, 18F25 Secondary: 12A67, 14C35, 14F15 ISBN 3-540-52260-3 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN 0-387-52260-3 Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg

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Preface

This is an almost unchanged version of my 1988 Habilitationsschrift at Regensburg. My original plan was to completely rewrite it for publication; in particular I wanted to make it more readable for the non­expert. Finally I chose to rather publish it like it is than turn it into a long range project. So I have only made some minor corrections and added three appendices. The first one reproduces a letter from S. Bloch to me and the second one consists of an example by C. Schoen. I thank both for the permission to publish this material, and the latter for the effort of rewriting the example, which also figured in a letter to me. The third appendix contains some remarks and complements written in 1989.

Uwe Jannsen Bonn, November 1989

Introduction

This

text

consists of three parts. In part I we define a

category of mixed motives in the setting of absolute Hodge cycles. In part II we investigate, as general as possible, relations between algebraic cycles, algebraic K-theory, and mixed structures in the cohomology of arbitrary varieties. In part III we present some conjectures on Chern characters from K-theory into £-adic cohomology for varieties over finite fields or global fields, and prove these in some (very) specific cases.

Background

The concept of motives [Ma]

,[Kl]

, [SR] was introduced

by Grothendieck to explain phenomena in different cohomology theories of algebraic varieties in a coherent way, in particular those related to algebraic cycles and weights. For example in both the £-adic and the Hodge theory the cohomology Hi(X) of a smooth projective variety is pure of weight i, the class of an algebraic cycle of codimension j can be interpreted as a morphism from the 2'

trivial structure into H J(X) (j), and the parallel formulation of the conjectures of Hodge and of Tate is that the functor se