Harder's Tamagawa number conjecture for split semisimple groups

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Let kk be a finite field, let XX be a smooth geometrically connected projective curve over kk with function field KK, and let G{\mathcal G} be a semisimple group scheme over XX, with generic fibre GG. The group GG is split when it admits a split maximal torus over KK.

Harder's conjecture. If G{\mathcal G} is split, the Tamagawa number of GG equals the number of connected components of the moduli space of G{\mathcal G}-torsors on XX.

The conjecture relates the arithmetic invariant given by the Tamagawa number to the geometry of the moduli space of torsors. The source introduces it as the motivating connection between Tamagawa numbers and Frobenius traces; its resolution status is not specified here.

References

Primary source

K. Behrend and A. Dhillon, “Connected components of moduli stacks of torsors via Tamagawa numbers”, arXiv:math/0503383 (2006).

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