Continuous étale cohomology (Q1105651)

The author shows how to construct a very well-behaved \(p\)-adic cohomology theory, called continuous cohomology by deriving the left exact functor \[ \{\text{inverse system }(F_n)\text{ of étale sheaves on }X\} \to \text{ abelian groups } (F_n) \mapsto \lim_{\overset \leftarrow n}H_0(X,F_n). \] The construction, when applied to locally constant sheaves, \(F_n\), gives the continuous étale cohomology theory of \textit{W. G. Dwyer} and \textit{E. M. Friedlander} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 292, 247--280 (1985; Zbl 0581.14012)]. However, the author's construction applies to arbitrary sheaves while enjoying all the desirable properties of a cohomology theory (e.g. Hochschild-Serre spectral sequences, Chern classes, a Milnor \(\lim_{\leftarrow}^ 1\) sequence to relate it to \(\ell\)-adic cohomology). All in all, continuous cohomology looks to be one way around a number of technical difficulties in \(\ell\)-adic cohomology.