Wittringhomologie

by Manfred Schmid (doctoral thesis, 1998, 101 pages)

For varieties over a field of characteristic different from 2, the text defines cycle complexes, similar to the cycle complexes studied in [M. Rost, Chow Groups with Coefficients, Doc. Math. 1 (1996), 319-393], however with the coefficient system given by the Wittgroup of quadratic forms. Special care has to be taken in positive characteristic. The complexes can be twisted by line bundles. Basic functorial properties of the complexes and homotopy invariance are established.

The homology groups for projective spaces are computed: All of them vanish, except possibly in the extreme dimensions, depending on the parity of the dimension and the twisting line bundle.

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Addendum

(added on Nov 5, 1998)

In Satz 3.1.5 of M. Schmid's thesis it is stated but not proved that the Gersten type localizations sequences for Witt groups are indeed complexes. This fact can be shown in a similar way as the corresponding statement for the localization sequences for Milnor's K-theory. There are two possibilities:

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