Geometric Euler systems for locally isotropic motives

Galois representations (11F80) Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties (11G18) Algebraic cycles and motivic cohomology ((K)-theoretic aspects) (19E15) Étale cohomology, higher regulators, zeta and (L)-functions ((K)-theoretic aspects) (19F27)

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The author develops some ``geometric Euler system techniques in order to prove the finiteness of certain Selmer groups. The paper is motivated by earlier work of \textit{M. Flach} [Invent. Math. 109, 307--327 (1992; Zbl 0781.14022)], and develops a general framework to show the finiteness of Selmer groups associated to certain motives coming from irreducible \(\ell\)-adic Galois representations of number fields. The formalism is presented abstractly at first, before the geometric constructions are introduced. The class of motives to which the methods apply appears quite restrictive, but contains many examples to which the current theory of Euler systems does not apply. In particular, the author deduces from his general theory the finiteness of Selmer groups associated to Galois representations arising from algebraic geometry under a certain geometric hypothesis; he verifies this hypothesis for the Galois representations associated to some classical and Drinfeld modular forms, such as the \(\lambda\)-adic representations associated to classical modular forms of level 1 and weight \(k\geq1\). The author remarks that the methods allow one to bound the exponent, but not the order, of the Selmer groups. The paper is clearly written, and nicely explained.

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