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Title:
Etale and crystalline companions
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Abstract:
Deligne's "Weil II" paper includes a far-reaching conjecture to the
effect that for a smooth variety on a finite field of characteristic p,
for any prime l distinct from p, l-adic representations of the etale
fundamental group do not occur in isolation: they always exist in
compatible families that vary across l, including a somewhat more
mysterious counterpart for l=p (the "petit camarade cristallin"). We
explain in more detail what this all means, indicate some key
ingredients in the proof (particularly the role of the Langlands
correspondence for function fields), and describe some concrete
applications.
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