Parity and symmetry in intersection and ordinary cohomology

DOI10.2140/ANT.2016.10.235zbMATH Open1375.14071arXiv1402.1292OpenAlexW1589001499MaRDI QIDQ264382FDOQ264382

Shenghao Sun, Weizhe Zheng

Publication date: 31 March 2016

Published in: Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we show that the Galois representations provided by $ell$-adic cohomology of proper smooth varieties, and more generally by $ell$-adic intersection cohomology of proper varieties, over any field, are orthogonal or symplectic according to the degree. We deduce this from a preservation result of orthogonal and symplectic pure perverse sheaves by proper direct image. We show moreover that the subgroup of the Grothendieck group generated by orthogonal pure perverse sheaves of even weights and symplectic pure perverse sheaves of odd weights are preserved by Grothendieck's six operations. Over a finite field, we deduce parity and symmetry results for Jordan blocks appearing in the Frobenius action on intersection cohomology of proper varieties, and virtual parity results for the Frobenius action on ordinary cohomology of arbitrary varieties.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1292

zbMATH Keywords

\(\ell\)-adic cohomologyalterationalternating formdecomposition theoremDeligne-Mumford stackGalois representationGrothendieck-Witt grouphorizontal complexintersection cohomologypure perverse sheafsymmetric form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Étale and other Grothendieck topologies and (co)homologies (14F20) Global ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G25) Algebraic theory of quadratic forms; Witt groups and rings (11E81) Other algebro-geometric (co)homologies (e.g., intersection, equivariant, Lawson, Deligne (co)homologies) (14F43) Finite ground fields in algebraic geometry (14G15)

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• Intersection cohomology of the symmetric reciprocal plane
• Grothendieck and vanishing cycles
• A geometric Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for paramodular Siegel threefolds

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