1967 The conjectures of Birch
and Swinnerton-Dyer for constant abelian varieties over function
fields (thesis)
Proves the full conjecture of Birch and
Swinnerton-Dyer for constant abelian varieties over global fields of
nonzero characteristic (with a small proviso). In particular, it
contains the first examples of abelian varieties whose
Tate-Shafarevich groups are known to be finite. The results were
improved and published in Milne 1968a, 1968b.
1968a Extensions of
abelian varieties defined over a finite field. Invent. Math. 5
(1968), 63-84.
For two abelian varieties A and B
over a finite field, proves that the group Ext1 (A,B) is finite, and
expresses its order in terms of the zeta functions of A and
B and the discriminant of a pairing on the Hom groups.
1968b The Tate-\v
Safarevi\v c group of a constant abelian variety, Invent. Math. 6
(1968), 91-105.
Proves the full conjecture of Birch and
Swinnerton-Dyer for constant abelian varieties over global fields of
nonzero characteristic.
1970a The homological
dimension of commutative group schemes over a perfect field. J. of
Algebra 16 (1970), 436--441.
Proves a Hochschild-Serre type
spectral sequence for Exts of commutative group schemes over a perfect
field, and completes the computation of the Ext groups of abelian
varieties over finite fields. Gives a short proof that Ext
2(A,B)=0 for
abelian varieties over an algebraically closed field.
1970b Elements of order
p in the Tate-\v Safarevi\v c group, Bull. London Math. Soc. 2
(1970), 293-296.
Proves that the Tate-Shafarevich group of an abelian variety over a
global field has only finitely many elements of order an integer
m, even when m is divisible by the characteristic. When
the characteristic divides m, the statement becomes false when
finitely many primes are omitted, or the finite field of constants is
replaced by an algebraically closed field.
1970c Weil-Châtelet
groups over local fields, Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup. 4 series, T3
(1970), 273-284; Addendum T5 (1972), 261-264.
For an abelian
variety A and its dual B over a local field of prime
characteristic, the article proves that A(K) is dual to the
Weil-Chatelet group of B.
1970d The Brauer group
of a rational surface, Invent. Math. 11 (1970), 304-307.
Proves that the Brauer group of a rational surface over a finite
field is finite and has the order predicted by the conjecture of Artin
and Tate.
1971a Abelian varieties
over finite fields (with W. C. Waterhouse), Proc. Symp. Pure Math.
20 (1971), 53-64.
An introduction to Honda-Tate theory. Includes
proofs of two results of Tate announced in his 1966 InvM paper but not
proved there. Also states results of the two authors.
1972a On the arithmetic
of abelian varieties, Invent. Math. 17 (1972), 177-190.
Relates the arithmetic invariants of an abelian variety to those of a
Weil restriction of scalars of it. Deduces that the conjecture of
Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer holds for the former if and only if it holds
for the latter. Identifies the zeta functions of some abelian
varieties that acquire complex multiplication only over an extension
field.
1972b Congruence
subgroups of abelian varieties, Bull. Sci. Math. 96 (1972),
333-338.
Proves that the congruence subgroup problem has a
positive solution for abelian varieties over global fields (when
stated correctly). This provides a description of one of the terms in
the Cassels-Tate exact sequence.
1972c Abelian varieties defined over their fields of moduli, I, Bull. London Math. Soc. 4 (1972), 370-372; Correction 6 (1974), 145-146.
1973a On a theorem of
Mazur and Roberts, Amer. J. Math. 95 (1973), 80-86.
Gives a
short proof of the theorem, which is a duality for the cohomology
groups of finite flat group schemes over complete discrete valuation
rings.
1975a On a conjecture of
Artin and Tate, Annals of Math. 102 (1975), 517-533.
Proves
that, for a surface over a finite field, the Tate conjecture implies
that the Brauer group of the surface is finite and has the order
predicted by the Artin-Tate conjecture.
1976a Duality in the
flat cohomology of surfaces, Ann. Sci. Ecole Norm. Sup. 9 (1976),
171-202.
Introduces the sheaves \nu (now called the logarithmic de Rham-Witt
sheaves), proves the flat duality theorem for surfaces conjectured by
M. Artin, and extends it to all smooth projective varieties for
sheaves killed by p
1976b Flat homology,
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 82 (1976), 118-120.
For a scheme X
over a field k, proves the existence of a flat homology complex
that universally computes the flat cohomology of any constant
commutative algebraic group over X (partially confirms, and
partially contradicts, a conjecture of Grothendieck).
1976c Duality in the
flat cohomology of curves (with M. Artin), Invent. Math. 35
(1976), 111-129 (Serre volume).
Proves a duality theorem for the
flat cohomology "groups" of a finite group scheme over a
smooth complete curve.
1979a Points on Shimura
varieties mod p, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 33 (1979), part 2,
165-184.
For a Shimura variety defined by a totally indefinite
quaternion algebra over a totally real field, this article and its
sequel 1979b prove a conjecture of Langlands concerning the points on
the good reduction of the variety.
1979b Etude d'une class
d'isogénie. In Variétiés de Shimura et Fonctions L,
Publications Mathématiques de l'Université Paris 7 (1979), 73-81.
Completes the proof of the theorem in 1979a.
1979bT TeXed and translated the article into
English (08.12.02).
1979c Shimura varieties:
conjugates and the action of complex multiplication, 154pp, October
1979 (with K-y. Shih).
This manuscript was broken into three,
and published as: 1981a (Annals); 1982c (LNM 900), 1982d (LNM 900).
1980 Etale Cohomology, Princeton Mathematical Series 33, Princeton UP, 323+xiii pages (see Books).
1981a The action of
complex conjugation on a Shimura variety (with K-y. Shih),
Annals of Math. 113 (1981), 569-599.
For a Shimura variety with a
real canonical model, complex conjugation defines an involution of the
complex points, which it is necessary to know in order to be able to
compute the zeta function. Langlands conjectured a description of the
involution, and we proved it for all Shimura varieties of abelian
type
1981b Automorphism
groups of Shimura varieties and reciprocity laws (with K-y. Shih),
Amer. J. Math. 103 (1981), 1159-1175.
We deduce the existence of
canonical models in the sense of Shimura from knowing the existence of
canonical models in the sense of Deligne. Contrary to some expert
opinion at the time, this was a serious exercise
1981c Some estimates
from étale cohomology, J. Reine Angew. Math. 328 (1981), 208-220.
Proves estimates for exponential sums that enabled to Hooley to
solve a problem that had stumped him for 20 years. See his plenary
talk at the ICM 1983. (Actually, don't, because he "forgot" to
mention his debt to étale cohomology.)
1981d Abelian Varieties
with Complex Multiplication (for Pedestrians) Handwritten notes
(19.09.81), widely distributed.
The notes give a simplified proof
of Deligne's extension of the Main Theorem of Complex Multiplication
to all automorphisms of the complex numbers. (Shortly afterwards,
Deligne further simplified the proof in a letter to Tate.)
1981dT TeXed the article,
updated the references, corrected a few misprints, and added a table
of contents, some footnotes, and an addendum (07.06.1998).
arXiv:math/9806172
1982 Hodge Cycles, Motives, and Shimura Varieties (with Pierre Deligne, Arthur Ogus, Kuang-yen Shih), Lecture Notes in Math. 900, Springer-Verlag, 414 pages (see Books).
1982a Hodge cycles on
abelian varieties (notes of a seminar of P. Deligne), in
Hodge Cycles, Motives, and Shimura Varieties, LNM 900, Springer,
9-100.
This is the seminar in which Deligne proved his famous
theorem that all Hodge cycles on abelian varieties are absolutely
Hodge.
1982aT
TeXed, somewhat revised and updated, with endnotes added (04.07.03).
1982b Tannakian
categories (with P. Deligne), in Hodge Cycles, Motives, and
Shimura Varieties, LNM 900, Springer, 101-228.
An introduction to
the theory of Tannakian categories, with some improvements to the
theory.
1982c Langlands's
construction of the Taniyama group (with K-y. Shih), in Hodge
Cycles, Motives, and Shimura Varieties, LNM 900, Springer, 229-260.
The Taniyama "group" controls how automorphisms of the
field of complex numbers act on CM abelian varieties, their points of
finite order, Shimura varieties, automorphic functions, etc.. This is
a more detailed account of its construction than Langlands's
original.
1982d Conjugates of
Shimura varieties (with K-y. Shih),
in Hodge Cycles,
Motives, and Shimura Varieties, LNM 900, Springer, 280-356.
Proves
Langlands's conjecture, describing the action of an automorphism of
C on the collection of Shimura varieties and their special
points, for all Shimura varieties except those defined by groups of
type E6, E7, or mixed type D.
1982e Zero cycles on
algebraic varieties in nonzero characteristic: Rojtman's theorem,
Compositio Math. 47 (1982), 271-287.
For a smooth projective
variety X over an algebraically closed field of prime
characteristic p, proves that the canonical map CH
0(X)(p) --> Alb(X)(p) is an
isomorphism. Here CH0(X) is
the group of zero cycles modulo rational equivalence, and CH
0(X)(p) is its p-primary
component.
1982f Comparison of the
Brauer group with the Tate-\v Safarevi\v c group, J. Fac. Sci.
Univ. Tokyo (Shintani Memorial Volume) IA 28 (1982), 735-743.
For
a surface fibred over a curve over global field, relates the order of
the Brauer group of the surface to that of the Tate-Shafarevich group
of the Jacobian of the generic fibre in a general situation where the
two are not equal (generalization of a theorem of Artin and Tate).
Deduce that, for many Jacobians over global fields of nonzero
characteristic, the first part of the Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture
(order of the zero) implies the whole conjecture (formula for the
order of the Tate-Shafarevich group).
1983a The action of an
automorphism of C on a Shimura variety and its special points
In: Arithmetic and Geometry, Papers dedicated to I.R. Shafarevich on
the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Progress in Math. 35 (1983),
Birkhauser Verlag, 239-265.
Proves Langlands's conjugation
conjecture, and hence the existence of canonical models, for all
Shimura varieties.
1984 Kazhdan's Theorem on
Arithmetic Varieties. Handwritten notes, 42 pages, 28.03.84.
Let V be a quotient of a bounded symmetric domain by an
arithmetic group. The Baily-Borel theorem says that V is an
algebraic variety, and Kazhdan's theorem says that when you apply an
automorphism of the complex numbers to the coefficients of the
polynomials defining V, the resulting variety is a quotient of
the same form. This article simplifies Kazhdan's proof. In particular,
it avoids recourse to the classification theorems.
1984T TeXed the article and added a
few footnotes (22.06.01/12.07.01). arXiv:math/0106197
1986a Values of zeta
functions of varieties over finite fields, Amer. J. Math. 108,
(1986), 297-360.
States a conjecture (generalization of the Artin-Tate conjecture;
stronger form of a conjecture of Lichtenbaum) relating special values
of zeta functions of smooth projective varieties over finite fields to
motivic cohomology, and proves a Z^ version of it (including
the p-part).
1986b Abelian varieties,
in Arithmetic Geometry (Proc. Conference on Arithmetic Geometry,
Storrs, August 1984) Springer, 1986, 103-150.
An introductory
guide.
1986c Jacobian
varieties, in Arithmetic Geometry (Proc. Conference on Arithmetic
Geometry, Storrs, August 1984) Springer, 1986, 167-212.
An
introductory guide.
1987 The (failure of the) Hasse principle for centres of
semisimple groups, manuscript.
Proves that the Hasse principle
holds for the centres of some semisimple groups over number fields,
and fails for others.
1987T
Translated the article into TeX (11.12.01).
1988a Automorphic vector
bundles on connected Shimura varieties, Inventiones math., 92
(1988), 91-128.
Extends the proof of Langlands's conjugation conjecture (Milne 1983)
to the standard principal bundle, and hence to automorphic vector
bundles (over connected Shimura varieties).
1988b Motivic cohomology
and values of zeta functions, Compos. math. 68 (1988), 59-102.
Adds the p-Kummer axiom to those of Beilinson and
Lichtenbaum for the motivic complex, and explains how the conjecture
(Lichtenbaum, Milne) relating the special values of zeta functions to
motivic cohomology will follow from the main result in Milne 1986a
once a complex has been shown to exist satisfying certain of the
axioms.
1990 Automorphic Forms, Shimura Varieties, and L-functions, Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 6--16, 1988. (Editor with L. Clozel). See Books.
1990a Canonical Models
of (Mixed) Shimura Varieties and Automorphic Vector Bundles. In:
Automorphic Forms, Shimura Varieties, and L-functions, (Proceedings of
a Conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 6-16,
1988), pp283--414.
Surveys what was known, or conjectured, about
canonical models of Shimura varieties and related objects at the time
it was written (1988).
1990aT Translated the old TeX files into LaTeX
2e; fixed some minor misprints; added some footnotes (22.06.01).
1990b Letter to Deligne
28.03.90
Concerning the signs in the theory of Shimura
varieties.
1992a The points on a Shimura variety modulo a
prime of good reduction. In: The Zeta Function of Picard Modular
Surfaces, Publ. Centre de Rech. Math., Montreal (Eds. R. Langlands and
D. Ramakrishnan), 1992, pp151--253.
Examines the conjecture of
Langlands and Rapoport and its consequences; introduces the notion of
a canonical integral model.
1992aP Preprint
(with two pages of notes added 14.06.01).
1994a Motives over finite fields. In: Motives (Eds. Jannsen,
Kleiman, Serre), AMS, Proc. Symp Pure Math. 55, 1994, Part 1, pp.
401--459.
Studies the Tannakian category of motives over a finite
field assuming the Tate conjecture. It computes the associated
groupoid, the polarizations, studies the reduction functor from the
category of CM-motives in characteristic zero. It is partly
expository, because many of the results were known to Grothendieck,
Langlands, Rapoport, and Deligne, but often not published.
1994aP Preprint, uncorrupted by the AMS copy
editors.
1994b Shimura varieties and motives, In: Motives (Eds. U.
Jannsen, S. Kleiman, J.-P. Serre), Proc. Symp. Pure Math., AMS, 55,
1994, Part 2, pp447--523.
Proves that all Shimura varieties of
abelian type with rational weight can be realized as the moduli
schemes of abelian motives (those in the category generated by abelian
varieties) with additional structure, and draws some consequences. The
paper also computes the affine group scheme attached to the category
of abelian motives over C, and contains a heuristic derivation
of the conjecture of Langlands and Rapoport.
1994bP Preprint, uncorrupted by the AMS copy
editors.
1995a Talks at IAS on
Shimura varieties
The notes for 4 lectures I gave at IAS in
early 1995 giving an introduction to Shimura varieties, and discussing
the problems that arise in the attempt to understand their zeta
functions.
1995b Shimura
Variety. Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Supplement Vol I, Kluwer
Acad, Publ., 1997, pp448-449.
One-page definition.
1995c On the conjecture
of Langlands and Rapoport arXiv:0707.3173
This manuscript,
which dates from 1995, examines what is needed to prove the conjecture
of Langlands and Rapoport concerning the structure of the points on a
Shimura variety modulo a prime of good reduction. (Sept 1995,
distributed to a few mathematicians; July 2007, added forenote and
placed on the web.)
1999a Lefschetz Classes on Abelian Varieties Duke Math. J.
96:3, 1999, pp. 639-675.
The Lefschetz classes are those in the
Q-algebra generated by divisor classes. The article shows that
for abelian varieties, they are exactly the classes fixed by an
algebraic group. Deduce that the classes on abelian varieties known to
be algebraic (Kunneth components of the diagonal, inverse to the
Lefschetz map L etc.), are, in fact, Lefschetz, and that the
Lefschetz classes on abelian varieties define a category of
correspondences. Deciding whether the algebra of Hodge classes (or the
algebra of Tate classes) on a given abelian variety is generated by
divisor classes becomes a matter of deciding whether two reductive
groups are equal.
1997aP Preprint.
1999b Lefschetz Motives and the Tate Conjecture Compositio
Math. 117 (1999), pp. 47-81.
Studies the categories of motives
(Lefschetz and neq) generated by abelian varieties over finite fields
and CM abelian varieties in characteristic zero and the functors
between them. Proves that the Hodge conjecture for complex abelian
varieties of CM-type implies the Tate conjecture for all abelian
varieties over finite fields, thereby reducing the latter to a problem
in complex analysis.
1997bP Preprint.
1999c Descent for Shimura Varieties, Michigan Math. J., 46
(1999), pp. 203--208; arXiv:alg-geom/9712031
This note checks that
the descent maps provided by Langlands's conjugacy conjecture do
satisfy the continuity condition necessary for them to be effective
(as claimed by Langlands in his Corvallis article). Hence the
conjecture does imply the existence of canonical models.
1997cP Preprint.
2000 Towards a proof of
the conjecture of Langlands and Rapoport. Text for a talk April
28, 2000, at the Conference on Galois Representations, Automorphic
Representations and Shimura Varieties, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris,
April 24-29, 2000.
A conference talk discussing the conjecture of
Langlands and Rapoport concerning the structure of the points on a
Shimura variety modulo a prime of good reduction.
2001a The Tate conjecture for certain abelian varieties over
finite fields. Acta Arith. 100 (2001), no. 2, pp.135--166;
arXiv:math/9911218
Proves the Tate conjecture for a family of abelian varieties whose
Q l -algebras of Tate classes are not
generated by those of degree one (and so the conjecture
doesn't follow from Tate's theorem (1966)) --- as far as I know, these
are the first such varieties.
2001aP Preprint.
2002a Polarizations and Grothendieck's Standard Conjectures,
Ann. of Math. 155 (2002), pp. 599--610; arXiv:math/0103175
Proves
that Grothendieck's Hodge standard conjecture holds for abelian
varieties in all characteristics if the Hodge conjecture holds for
complex abelian varieties of CM-type. For abelian varieties with no
exotic algebraic classes, the article proves the Hodge standard
conjecture unconditionally.
2002aS As orginally submitted (14.08.01, 16
pages).
2002aP After being
shortened, following the suggestions of the referee (19.09.01, 11
pages).
2002b MR review of:
Harris and Taylor, The Geometry and Cohomology of Some Simple Shimura
Varieties, Annals of Math. Studies, Princeton UP, 2001.
With
endnotes not part of review sent to MR.
2003a Canonical models
of Shimura curves, Preliminary draft (04.04.03), 40 pages.
As
an introduction to Shimura varieties, and, in particular, to Deligne's
Bourbaki and Corvallis talks, I explain the main ideas and results of
the general theory of Shimura varieties in the context of Shimura
curves.
2003b Gerbes and abelian
motives arXiv.math/0301304
Assuming the Hodge conjecture for
abelian varieties of CM-type, one obtains a good category of abelian
motives over the algebraic closure of a finite field and a reduction
functor to it from the category of CM-motives. Consequently, one
obtains a morphism of gerbes of fibre functors with certain
properties. I prove unconditionally that there exists a morphism of
gerbes with these properties, and I classify them (critical
re-examination of work of Langlands and Rapoport).
2004a Integral Motives and Special Values of Zeta Functions
(with N. Ramachandran), J. Amer. Math. Soc. 17 (2004), 499-555;
arXiv:math/0204065
For each field k, we define a category
of rationally decomposed mixed motives with Z-coefficients.
When k is finite, we show that the category is Tannakian, and
we prove formulas relating the behaviour of zeta functions near
integers to the orders of Ext groups.
2004aP Final preprint,
58 pages (28.03.2004, submitted 22.05.2002.).
2004b MR review of
Shimura, Collected Papers
With footnotes not part of the
review sent to MR.
2004c Periods of abelian varieties, Compositio Math. 140
(2004), 1149--1175; arXiv:math/0209076
Proves various
characterizations of the period torsor of abelian varieties, and
corrects some errors in the literature. Beyond its intrinsic interest,
the period torsor controls the arithmetic of holomorphic automorphic
forms.
2004cP
Preprint.
2005a Introduction to Shimura varieties, In Harmonic
Analysis, the Trace Formula and Shimura Varieties (James Arthur,
Robert Kottwitz, Editors) AMS, 2005, (Lectures at the Summer School
held at the Fields Institute, June 2 -- June 27, 2003).
The article
is an introduction the arithmetic theory of automorphic functions and
holomorphic automorphic forms.
2005aX Expanded version, containing footnotes
and endnotes not in the published version; 149 pages, 23.10.04.
2005bv2 Quotients of
Tannakian Categories Theory Appl. Categ. 18 (2007), No. 21, 654--664.
arXiv:math/0508479 (11 pages).
24.08.05; 09.07.07 (minor
expository improvements).
Classifies the "quotients" of a tannakian category in which the
objects of a some tannakian subcategory become trivial; examines the
properties of such quotient categories.
2005c The de Rham-Witt
and Zp-cohomologies of an algebraic variety (with
Niranjan Ramachandran), Advances in Mathematics (Artin volume),
198 (2005), 36--42.
Proves that the Z
p-cohomology groups of a complete smooth algebraic variety,
originally defined in Milne 1976a 1986a, also arise by taking Hom in
the triangulated category of coherent complexes over the Raynaud ring
from an identity object into the object defined by de Rham-Witt
complex on the variety.
2006a Motives over
Fp, arXiv:math/0607569.
In April, 2006,
Kontsevich asked me whether the category of motives over
Fp (p prime) has a fibre functor over a
number field of finite degree since he had a conjecture that
more-or-less implied this. This article is my response. Unfortunately,
since the results are generally negative or inconclusive, they are of
little interest except perhaps for the question they raise on the
existence of a cyclic extension of Q having certain
properties (see Question 6.5).
2006b. Motivic complexes over finite fields and the ring of
correspondences at the generic point (with Niranjan Ramachandran)
arXiv.math/0607483; To appear in Pure & App. Math. Quarterly (Tate issue).
Already in the 1960s Grothendieck understood
that one could obtain an almost entirely satisfactory theory of
motives over a finite field when one assumes the Tate conjecture. In
this note we prove a similar result for motivic complexes. In
particular Beilinson's Q-algebra of "correspondences at the
generic point" is then defined for all connected varieties. We compute
this for all smooth projective varieties (hence also for varieties
birational to such a variety).
03.12.05. pdf First version on the web.
19.07.06. pdf Submitted version (plus an appendix).
02.05.08. pdf Final version.
2007a Semisimple Lie
algebras, algebraic groups, and tensor categories, (09.05.07, 37
pages)
It is shown that the classification theorems for semisimple
algebraic groups in characteristic zero can be derived quite simply
and naturally from the corresponding theorems for Lie algebras by
using a little of the theory of tensor categories.
2007b Semisimple
algebraic groups in characteristic zero, arXiv:0705.1348
Short
version of Milne 2007a (09.05.07, 12 pages).
2007c The fundamental
theorem of complex multiplication, arXiv:0705.3446.
Presents a
proof that is as direct and elementary as possible of the fundamental
theorem of complex multiplication (Shimura, Taniyama, Langlands, Tate,
Deligne et al.). The article is a revision of part of my manuscript
Complex Multiplication (April 7, 2006).
2007d Rational Tate
classes, arXive:0707.3167
Investigates whether there exists a
theory of "rational Tate classes" for abelian varieties having the
properties that the algebraic classes would have if the Tate
conjecture were known
v1, 20.07.07. v2, 07.11.07. Completely rewritten; shortened title.
v3, 29.04.07. Submitted version.
2007e The Tate
conjecture over finite fields (AIM talk),
My notes for a talk
at The Tate Conjecture workshop at AIM, July 2007, somewhat revised
and expanded (19.09.07 19 pages); the intent of the talk was to review
what is known and suggest directions for research.
v2, 10.10.07 Revised and exanded (24 pages).
v2.1, 07.11.07 Minor fixes.
v2.2, 07.05.08 Rewrote sections 1 and 5 (27 pages).
2008a Nonhomeomorphic
conjugates of connected Shimura varieties (with Junecue Suh) arXiv:0804.1953
We show that conjugation by an automorphism of the complex numbers may change the
topological fundamental group of a locally symmetric variety over C.
As a consequence, we obtain a large class of algebraic varieties defined
over number fields with the property that different embeddings of the number
field into C give complex varieties with nonisomorphic fundamental groups.
(13.04.08, 18 pages)
2008b Points on Shimura varieties over finite fields:
the conjecture of Langlands and Rapoport
This is a revised and updated version of Section 4 of 1994b and of 1995.
It remains a work in progress.