Differential forms in algebraic geometry -- a new perspective in the singular case (Q502146)

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Differential forms in algebraic geometry -- a new perspective in the singular case
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    Differential forms in algebraic geometry -- a new perspective in the singular case (English)
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    30 December 2016
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    In this survey article, the problem of defining differential forms on singular varieties is considered. The first four chapters serve as an introduction, while in chapter 5 the approach of the authors and her collaborators is outlined: the idea is to consider differentials as a sheaf in a Grothendieck topology, where every variety is locally non-singular -- such as Voevodsky's h-topology, or sub-topologies thereof avoiding inseparable covers that would lead to pathologies in positive characteristic. Requiring that differentials behave as usual on non-singular varieties, this trick provides a natural and functorial extension of this notion, to the realm of singular varieties. Chapter 6 is devoted to a summary of the properties of differentials, in characteristic zero. It turns out that a differential on a singular variety is completely determined by a collection of compatible differentials on non-singular h-covers. Chapter 7 is focused on positive characteristic phenomena, where of course a major issue is the lack of a resolution of singularities. The suggested solution, inspired by the characteristic zero situation, is to work with Riemann-Zariski spaces of valuations, and to define a differential on a singular variety as a compatible collection of differentials defined on spectra of fields and valuation rings mapping to our variety. Finally, some conjectures are proposed.
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    algebraic differential forms
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    cohomological invariants
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    h-topology
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    singular varieties
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