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Duality and Hermitian Galois Module Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2003

Ted Chinburg
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395, USA. E-mail: ted@math.upenn.edu
Georgios Pappas
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1027, USA. E-mail: pappas@math.msu.edu
Martin J. Taylor
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester M60 1QD. E-mail: martin.taylor@umist.ac.uk
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Abstract

Suppose $\mathcal{O}$ is either the ring of integers of a number field, the ring of integers of a $p$-adic local field, or a field of characteristic $0$. Let $\mathcal{X}$ be a regular projective scheme which is flat and equidimensional over $\mathcal{O}$ of relative dimension $d$. Suppose $G$ is a finite group acting tamely on $\mathcal{X}$. Define ${\rm HCl}(\mathcal{O} G)$ to be the Hermitian class group of $\mathcal{O} G$. Using the duality pairings on the de Rham cohomology groups $H^*(X, \Omega^\bullet_{X / F})$ of the fiber $X$ of $\mathcal{X}$ over $F = {\rm Frac}(\mathcal{O})$, we define a canonical invariant $\chi_H(\mathcal{X}, G)$ in ${\rm HCl}(\mathcal{O} G)$ . When $d = 1$ and $\mathcal{O}$ is either $\mathbb{Z}$, $\mathbb{Z}_p$ or $\mathbb{R}$, we determine the image of $\chi_H(\mathcal{X}, G)$ in the adelic Hermitian classgroup ${\rm Ad\,HCl}(\mathbb{Z} G)$ by means of $\epsilon$-constants. We also show that in this case, the image in ${\rm Ad\,HCl}(\mathbb{Z} G)$ of a closely related Hermitian Euler characteristic $\chi_{H}(\mathcal{X}, G)(0)$ both determines and is determined by the $\epsilon_0$-constants of the symplectic representations of $G$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2003 London Mathematical Society

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Footnotes

T.C. was supported by NSF Grants #DMS97-01411 and #DMS00-70433, G.P. was supported by NSF Grant  DMS99-70378 and by a Sloan Research Fellowship, and M.J.T. is an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow.