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Addendum to “Values of zeta functions of varieties over finite fields”
- American Journal of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 137, Number 6, December 2015
- pp. 1703-1712
- 10.1353/ajm.2015.0044
- Article
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The original article [{\it Amer. J. Math.} {\bf 108} (1986), no. 2,
297--360] expressed the special values of the zeta function of a variety
over a finite field in terms of the $\widehat{\Bbb{Z}}$-cohomology of the
variety. As the article was being completed (September 1983), Lichtenbaum
conjectured the existence of complexes of sheaves ${\Bbb Z}(r)$ extending
the sequence ${\Bbb Z}$, ${\Bbb G}_{m}[-1],\ldots$. The complexes given by
Bloch's higher Chow groups are known to satisfy most of the axioms for
${\Bbb Z}(r)$. Using Lichtenbaum's Weil-\'{e}tale topology, we can now
give a beautiful restatement of the main theorem of the original article
in terms of ${\Bbb Z}$-cohomology groups.