Continuous group actions on profinite spaces

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Abstract: For a profinite group, we construct a model structure on profinite spaces and profinite spectra with a continuous action. This yields descent spectral sequences for the homotopy groups of homotopy fixed point space and for stable homotopy groups of homotopy orbit spaces. Our main example is the Galois action on profinite 'etale topological types of varieties over a field. One motivation is to understand Grothendieck's section conjecture in terms of homotopy fixed points.


Let \({\widehat{\mathcal S}}\) be the category of profinite spaces. This means simplicial objects in the category of profinite sets. Let \(k\) be a field, \(\bar k\) a separable closure of \(k\) and \(G_{k}=Gal({\bar k}/k).\) Let \(X\) be a variety over k, \({\bar X}=X{\otimes}_{k}{\bar k}\) and \(\widehat{Et}{\bar X}\) be the profinitely completed étale topological type of \({\bar X}\) [cf. \textit{E. M. Friedlander}, Etale homotopy of simplicial schemes. Annals of Mathematics Studies, 104. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press and University of Tokyo Press (1982; Zbl 0538.55001)]. There is a natural sequence of profinite spaces \[ \widehat{Et}{\bar X}\rightarrow \widehat{Et}{X}\rightarrow \widehat{Et}{k} \] that in view of the equivalence \(\widehat{Et}{k}\cong BG_{k}\) suggests to think of \(\widehat{Et}{X}\) as the homotopy orbit of \(\widehat{Et}{\bar X}\) under the \(G_{k}\)-action. The author proves the following generalization of the theorem of \textit{D. A. Cox} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 76, 17--22 (1979; Zbl 0442.14004)]. Theorem. Let \(k\) be a field with absolute Galois group \(G_{k}\) and let \(X\) be a geometrically connected variety over \(k.\) Then the canonical map \[ ({\lim}_{L} \widehat{Et}{X}) {\times}_{G_{k}}EG_{k} \rightarrow \widehat{Et}{X} \] is a weak equivalence of profinite spaces, where the limit is taken over all finite Galois extensions \(L/k\) in \(\bar k\) and \(X_{L}\) denotes \(X{\otimes}_{k}L\).



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