Uniqueness conjecture for canonical parallel translation

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Let XKX_K be a smooth connected scheme over KK, let x0,x1∈X(K)x_0,x_1\in X(K), and let FxiF_{x_i} denote the corresponding fibre functors on the category under consideration. Write KstK_{st} for the period extension and Mor⊗(Fx0⊗Kst;Fx1⊗Kst)Mor^{\otimes}(F_{x_0} \otimes K_{st};F_{x_1} \otimes K_{st}) for the space of tensor-compatible morphisms between the resulting fibre functors. Theorem B asserts the existence of a canonical parallel translation

Cx0;x1;XK∈Mor⊗(Fx0⊗Kst;Fx1⊗Kst)C_{x_0;x_1;X_K} \in Mor^{\otimes}(F_{x_0} \otimes K_{st};F_{x_1} \otimes K_{st})

satisfying the listed functoriality, composition, analyticity, extension, explicit logarithmic, and monodromy properties. Uniqueness conjecture. A collection

Cx0;x1;XK∈Mor⊗(Fx0⊗Kst;Fx1⊗Kst)C_{x_0;x_1;X_K} \in Mor^{\otimes}(F_{x_0} \otimes K_{st};F_{x_1} \otimes K_{st})

satisfying those properties is unique. The conjecture says that the canonical parallel translation constructed in Theorem B is characterized uniquely by its stated properties; the source gives no resolution or further evidence for this uniqueness claim.

References

Primary source

Vadim Vologodsky, “Hodge structure on the fundamental group and its application to p-adic integration”, arXiv:math/0108109 (2001).

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