Uniform stability conjecture for vanishing cycles
Let be a smooth variety over an algebraically closed field of characteristic , let , and let be a smooth point of . For an étale neighbourhood of , let be test functions at , and let be the maximal ideal at . The uniform stability conjecture. There exists a positive integer , depending on , such that for every such satisfying , there is an isomorphism
as objects in . This conjecture asks for a uniform, representation-theoretic stability statement for vanishing cycles, strengthening the paper's comparison with Saito's result, which fixes a single test function and allows an isolated characteristic point. The conjecture remains open in the stated generality.
References
Primary source
Tong Zhou, “On the stability of vanishing cycles of étale sheaves in positive characteristic”, arXiv:2307.00416 (2026).
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