The Bloch-Kato conjecture on special values of \(L\)-functions. A survey of known results. (Q1424579)

The author gives a survey of known results about a conjecture of \textit{S. Bloch} and \textit{K. Kato}, first formulated in ``\(L\)-functions and Tamagawa numbers of motives'' [The Grothendieck Festschrift, Vol. I, Prog. Math. 86, 333--400 (1990; Zbl 0768.14001)], which conjecturally links special values of \(L\)-functions of motives to cohomological data. In the number field case the conjecture (and more generally the equivariant version of the conjecture) is known for Abelian fields up to \(2\)-primary information. The most general result in this direction is contained in [\textit{D. Burns} and \textit{C. Greither}, Invent. Math. 153, 303--359 (2003; Zbl 1142.11076)]. The other cases discussed in the paper are certain elliptic curves with complex multiplication [cf. \textit{G. Kings}, Invent. Math. 143, 571--627 (2001; Zbl 1159.11311)] and adjoint motives of newforms of weight \(\geq 2\) [cf. \textit{F. Diamond, M. Flach} and \textit{L. Guo}, Math. Res. Lett. 8, No. 4, 437--442 (2001; Zbl 1022.11023)].