Etale Cohomology

A fun (enough) talk

This is a rough transcription of a talk I gave to a class of algebraic number theory students at UC Berkeley with the goal of trying to understand how one might bring to bear modern techniques in number theory/geometry on some classical questions. I have essentially kept the format the same, while adding a bit of extra material (and adding in their responses to questions I asked).
(more…)

Some motivation for p-adic Hodge theory

These are some notes that I wrote for a learning course at Berkeley–the goal being to understand the statement of the global Langlands conjecture.

The goal of the talk (that these notes were written for) was, specifically, to motivate $p$ -adic Hodge theory with an eye, in particular, towards where it might be useful in understanding the statement of Langlands.

These are even less edited than usual, so I profusely apologize for any mistakes. As always, corrections/comments are very welcome!

Notes

A computation a day: a pullback pushforward

In this post we compute the Galois representation $i^\ast R^m j_\ast\mathbb{Q}_\ell$ where $j:\mathbb{G}_{m,\overline{k}}\hookrightarrow\mathbb{A}^1_k$ is the natural inclusion and $i:\text{Spec}(k)\hookrightarrow \mathbb{A}^1_k$ is the inclusion of the origin.

(more…)

Around abelian schemes over the integers

This is the transcription to blog format of a talk I gave at the UC Berkeley Student Arithmetic Geometry Seminar about several topics related to Fontaine’s famous result that there are no abelian schemes over $\mathbb{Z}$ .