Friday, 18 September 2009

ag.algebraic geometry - Fibration sequences in étale homotopy theory arising from geometric fibres

Let $R = mathbb{Z} [ frac{1}{p}]$ for some prime number $p$ and $GL_{n,R}$ be the general linear group scheme over $R$. The bar construction gives a simplicial scheme $BGL_{n,R}$ over the constant simplicial scheme $Spec(R)$. If $q$ is a prime different from $p$ we can pull $BGL_{n,R}$ back along a map $Spec( bar{mathbb{F}_q}) to Spec(R)$ to get $BGL_{n,bar{mathbb{F}_q}}$. Here $bar{mathbb{F}_q}$ is an algebraic closure of $mathbb{F}_q$. The simplicial scheme $BGL_{n,bar{mathbb{F}_q}}$ has the nice property that if we apply Friedlander's étale topological type functor, defined here, and then p-complete, we get something that is equivalent to the $p$-completion tower $ { (mathbb{Z}/p)_s BGL_n( mathbb{C}) }_s $. (Here $BGL_{n}( mathbb{C})$ means the singular simplicial set of the classifying space of the Lie group).



Several articles state that the sequence$$(BGL_{n,bar{mathbb{F}_q}})_{ét} to (BGL_{n,R})_{ét} to Spec(R)_{ét}$$ becomes a fibration sequence after $p$-completing the $BGL$ terms, but I haven't been able to find any proof or argument supporting this anywhere. Does anyone know of a proof or argument for this?



In the article Exotic cohomology for $GL_n(mathbb{Z} [ frac{1}{2}])$ the reader is referred to Étale homotopy of simplicial schemes but I have only been able to find a proof of the $p$-adic equivalence I mentioned above, not of the fibration sequence. In Algebraic and étale k-theory it is used several times.



I hope this question isn't too narrow for Mathoverflow.



The reason that I ask is that I would like to have similar fibration sequences for other group schemes and I hope they will be fibration sequences for the same reason that the one above is.

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