Friday, 18 September 2009

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

Let R=mathbbZ[frac1p] for some prime number p and GLn,R be the general linear group scheme over R. The bar construction gives a simplicial scheme BGLn,R over the constant simplicial scheme Spec(R). If q is a prime different from p we can pull BGLn,R back along a map Spec(barmathbbFq)toSpec(R) to get BGLn,barmathbbFq. Here barmathbbFq is an algebraic closure of mathbbFq. The simplicial scheme BGLn,barmathbbFq 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 (mathbbZ/p)sBGLn(mathbbC)s. (Here BGLn(mathbbC) means the singular simplicial set of the classifying space of the Lie group).



Several articles state that the sequence(BGLn,barmathbbFq)étto(BGLn,R)éttoSpec(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 GLn(mathbbZ[frac12]) 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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