scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1296379

Coverings in algebraic geometry (14E20) Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Universal profinite groups (relationship to moduli spaces, projective and moduli towers, Galois theory) (14G32) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30)

Review text

This paper is a review of studies about the encoding of properties of an algebraic variety \(X\) in its algebraic fundamental group \(\pi _1(X\otimes _k \overline k)\), the profinite group which classifies finite étale coverings, defined by A. Grothendieck. The interesting case is when \(k\) is a proper subfield of \(\overline k \), since we can view the algebraic fundamental group as an extension \[ 0 \rightarrow \pi _1(X\otimes _k \overline k) \rightarrow \pi _1(X) \rightarrow \text{ Gal}(\overline k /k) \rightarrow 0. \] A result of \textit{S. Mochizuchi} [see Invent. Math. 138, No. 2, 319-423 (1999)] shows that for hyperbolic curves \(X_1\), \(X_2\) over \(k\), where \(k\) is a finitely generated extension of \({\mathbb Q}_p\), any open map \( \pi _1(X_1) \rightarrow \pi _1(X_2)\), as \(\pi _1(X_2\otimes _k \overline k)\)-conjugacy class of map of extensions, is induced by a unique and dominant map \(X_1 \rightarrow X_2\). The main tool used here is \(p\)-adic Hodge theory. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0911.00019].

Recommendations

Cited in

(22)

This page was built for publication:

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4248258)