Lectures on Etale Cohomology

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v2.01; August 9, 1998; 190 pages.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Etale Morphisms
  3. The Etale Fundamental Group
  4. The Local Ring for the Etale Topology
  5. Sites
  6. Sheaves for the Etale Topology
  7. The Category of Sheaves on Xet.
  8. Direct and Inverse Images of Sheaves.
  9. Cohomology: Definition and the Basic Properties
  10. Cech Cohomology
  11. Principal Homogeneous Spaces and H1.
  12. Higher Direct Images; the Leray Spectral Sequence
  13. The Weil-Divisor Exact Sequence and the Cohomology of Gm
  14. The Cohomology of Curves
  15. Cohomological Dimension.
  16. Purity; the Gysin Sequence.
  17. The Proper Base Change Theorem.
  18. Cohomology Groups with Compact Support.
  19. Finiteness Theorems; Sheaves of Zl-modules
  20. The Smooth Base Change Theorem.
  21. The Comparison Theorem.
  22. The Kunneth Formula.
  23. The Cycle Map; Chern Classes
  24. Poincare Duality
  25. Lefschetz Fixed-Point Formula.
  26. The Weil Conjectures.
  27. Proof of the Weil Conjectures, except for the Riemann Hypothesis
  28. Preliminary Reductions
  29. The Lefschetz Fixed Point Formula for Nonconstant Sheaves
  30. The MAIN Lemma
  31. The Geometry of Lefschetz Pencils
  32. The Cohomology of Lefschetz Pencils
  33. Completion of the Proof of the Weil Conjectures.
  34. The Geometry of Estimates

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