On leading terms and values of equivariant motivic \(L\)-functions (Q2268328)

Let \(K/k\) be a finite Galois extension of number fields with the Galois group \(G\), \(M\) a motive defined over \(k\), \(M_K:=h^0(\text{Spec} K)\otimes_{h^0(\text{Spec} k)}M\), \(\zeta({\mathbb C}[G])\) the centre of \({\mathbb C}[G]\), \(L^*(M_K)\) the leading term in the Taylor expansion at \(s=0\) of the natural \(\zeta({\mathbb C}[G])\)-valued \(L\)-function of \(M_K\). The Equivariant Tamagawa Number Conjecture formulated by Flach and the author predicts that \[ \delta(L^*(M_K))=\chi(M_K), \] where \(\delta\) is a canonical homomorphism from the unit group of \(\zeta({\mathbb R}[G])\) to the relative algebraic \(K\)-group of the ring extension \( {\mathbb Z}[G]\subseteq {\mathbb R}[G])\) and \(\chi(M_K)\) is an Euler characteristic. The author describes some general methods for converting the conjecture into predictions that are much more explicit in nature. These predictions concern Euler characteristic formulas, restrictions on the structures of natural arithmetic modules, formulas relating components of the leading term \(L^*(M_K)\) to the Fitting ideals of such modules and congruences between components of \(L^*(M_K)\) that involve natural algebraic height pairings.