Dennis Gaitsgory and Jacob Lurie
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182148
- eISBN:
- 9780691184432
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182148.001.0001
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Mathematical Finance
A central concern of number theory is the study of local-to-global principles, which describe the behavior of a global field K in terms of the behavior of various completions of K. This book looks at ...
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A central concern of number theory is the study of local-to-global principles, which describe the behavior of a global field K in terms of the behavior of various completions of K. This book looks at a specific example of a local-to-global principle: Weil's conjecture on the Tamagawa number of a semisimple algebraic group G over K. In the case where K is the function field of an algebraic curve X, this conjecture counts the number of G-bundles on X (global information) in terms of the reduction of G at the points of X (local information). The goal of this book is to give a conceptual proof of Weil's conjecture, based on the geometry of the moduli stack of G-bundles. Inspired by ideas from algebraic topology, it introduces a theory of factorization homology in the setting ℓ-adic sheaves. Using this theory, the authors articulate a different local-to-global principle: a product formula that expresses the cohomology of the moduli stack of G-bundles (a global object) as a tensor product of local factors. Using a version of the Grothendieck–Lefschetz trace formula, the book shows that this product formula implies Weil's conjecture. The proof of the product formula will appear in a sequel volume.Less
A central concern of number theory is the study of local-to-global principles, which describe the behavior of a global field K in terms of the behavior of various completions of K. This book looks at a specific example of a local-to-global principle: Weil's conjecture on the Tamagawa number of a semisimple algebraic group G over K. In the case where K is the function field of an algebraic curve X, this conjecture counts the number of G-bundles on X (global information) in terms of the reduction of G at the points of X (local information). The goal of this book is to give a conceptual proof of Weil's conjecture, based on the geometry of the moduli stack of G-bundles. Inspired by ideas from algebraic topology, it introduces a theory of factorization homology in the setting ℓ-adic sheaves. Using this theory, the authors articulate a different local-to-global principle: a product formula that expresses the cohomology of the moduli stack of G-bundles (a global object) as a tensor product of local factors. Using a version of the Grothendieck–Lefschetz trace formula, the book shows that this product formula implies Weil's conjecture. The proof of the product formula will appear in a sequel volume.
Clifford Henry Taubes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- December 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199605880
- eISBN:
- 9780191774911
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605880.003.0011
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Geometry / Topology, Mathematical Physics
This chapter examines the related notions of covariant derivative and connection. It covers the space of covariant derivatives. It also gives a relatively straightforward construction of a covariant ...
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This chapter examines the related notions of covariant derivative and connection. It covers the space of covariant derivatives. It also gives a relatively straightforward construction of a covariant derivative on a given vector bundle E → M with fiber 𝕍n = ℝnRn or ℂn. It looks at principal bundles and connections; connections and covariant derivatives; and horizontal lifts. The chapter gives an application to the classification of principal G-bundles up to isomorphism and explains connections, covariant derivatives, and pull-back bundles.Less
This chapter examines the related notions of covariant derivative and connection. It covers the space of covariant derivatives. It also gives a relatively straightforward construction of a covariant derivative on a given vector bundle E → M with fiber 𝕍n = ℝnRn or ℂn. It looks at principal bundles and connections; connections and covariant derivatives; and horizontal lifts. The chapter gives an application to the classification of principal G-bundles up to isomorphism and explains connections, covariant derivatives, and pull-back bundles.
