The arithmetic site

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Abstract: We show that the non-commutative geometric approach to the Riemann zeta function has an algebraic geometric incarnation: the "Arithmetic Site". This site involves the tropical semiring viewed as a sheaf on the topos which is the dual of the multiplicative semigroup of positive integers. We prove that the set of points of the arithmetic site over the maximal compact subring of the tropical semifield is the non-commutative space quotient of the adele class space of Q by the action of the maximal compact subgroup of the idele class group. We realize the Frobenius correspondences in the square of the "Arithmetic Site" and compute their composition. This note provides the algebraic geometric space underlying the non-commutative approach to RH.


The schemes and topoi were introduced by A.~Grothendieck to solve a concrete problem of the arithmetic geometry, namely, the Weil's Conjectures. Roughly speaking, a topos is a category of topological spaces, which admits a good notion of the localization; the latter is a critical procedure in the commutative algebra, meaning the passage from the coordinate ring of a variety \(X\) to its local ring at a prime ideal \({\mathfrak P}\) corresponding to a point \(p\in X\). The authors of the paper under review introduce the so-called ringed topos with the structure sheaf of semirings of characteristic one; the topos is inspired and related to the (generalized) Bost-Connes dynamical system. In particular, the ringed topos generates the Hasse-Weil \(L\)-function, which coincides with the Riemann zeta function. The text is a collection of definitions and statements, whose proofs will be published elsewhere; it is a part of the ongoing project of proving the Riemann Hypothesis by means of noncommutative geometry. A draft of the paper is available at \url{arXiv:1405.4527}.











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