The generalized Tate conjecture

Let XX be a smooth projective variety, or a smooth and proper Deligne--Mumford stack with projective coarse moduli space, over a finitely generated field LL. Let LsL^{\mathrm{s}} be a separable closure of LL, and let VHj(XLs,Q)V\subset H^j(X_{L^{\mathrm{s}}},\mathbb{Q}_\ell) be a Galois subrepresentation. Suppose that V(k)V(k) is effective, meaning that the eigenvalues of Frobenius elements acting on V(k)V(k) at good places are algebraic integers.

Generalized Tate conjecture. There is a closed algebraic subset ZXZ\subset X of codimension kk such that

Vker(Hj(XLs,Q)Hj((XZ)Ls,Q)).V\subset\ker\bigl(H^j(X_{L^{\mathrm{s}}},\mathbb{Q}_\ell)\to H^j((X\smallsetminus Z)_{L^{\mathrm{s}}},\mathbb{Q}_\ell)\bigr).

This is the arithmetic analogue of the generalized Hodge conjecture, replacing Hodge coniveau by effectivity of the twisted Galois representation. It remains open in general.

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Primary source

Sam Payne, “On the Hodge and Tate conjectures for moduli spaces of curves”, arXiv:2605.20453 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:math/0607483.

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