Serre's independence and purity conjecture for bad reduction

Let KK be a global field, let XX be a smooth projective KK-variety of dimension nn, and fix i[0,2n]i\in[0,2n]. For a finite place vv and a prime ll not dividing the residue characteristic, let IvI_v be the inertia group, let πv\pi_v be geometric Frobenius, and let Hli(X)=Heˊti(X,Ql)H^i_l(X)=H^i_{\operatorname{\acute{e}t}}(\overline{X},\mathbf{Q}_l). Serre's conjecture. The polynomial

det(1πvtHli(X)Iv)\det(1-\pi_v t\mid H^i_l(X)^{I_v})

is independent of the choice of ll and has integer coefficients; its inverse roots are Weil numbers of weights between 00 and ii.

For good reduction, the analogous assertions follow from smooth proper base change and the Weil conjectures. The conjecture concerns the corresponding independence and weight properties at places of bad reduction and is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Bruno Kahn, “Fonctions zêta et L de variétés et de motifs”, arXiv:1512.09250 (2016).

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