@@ -31,9 +31,11 @@ but no tie-in to a curve. Unramifiedness predicates exist, but nothing for a
3131representation.
3232
3333Missing: ` π₁^ét(X) ` for schemes. The Galois-category development is abstract,
34- with finite ` G ` -sets as its only worked instance, and although the big étale site
35- exists as a Grothendieck topology on schemes, the finite étale site is not
36- instantiated as a Galois category. This decided the ` G_K ` -based formulation.
34+ with finite ` G ` -sets as its only worked instance. Both the big étale site and the
35+ small one, on the category of schemes étale over ` X ` , exist as Grothendieck
36+ topologies in ` AlgebraicGeometry/Sites/Etale.lean ` . What is absent is the finite
37+ étale subcategory, a fibre functor on it, and the Galois-category instance
38+ joining the two developments. This decided the ` G_K ` -based formulation.
3739Chebotarev density is absent entirely, as is characteristic-polynomial
3840coefficient descent to ` E ` .
3941
@@ -64,13 +66,18 @@ elements at a place are conjugate, when in fact two lifts at the same prime
6466differ by an element of inertia; it was deleted and replaced by the correct
6567inertia argument. The companion statement was false as first written, since a
6668rank-one unramified character of the constant-field quotient has Frobenius
67- eigenvalues outside ` E ` , and irreducibility, finite-order determinant and
68- ` E ` -rationality of the Frobenius characteristic polynomials are all required.
69+ eigenvalues outside ` E ` . Absolute irreducibility, finite-order determinant and
70+ ` E ` -rationality of the Frobenius characteristic polynomials were all added. The
71+ first two are Lafforgue's own hypotheses; the third is an artefact of fixing ` E `
72+ in advance here, where Lafforgue obtains the number field as part of the theorem.
73+ None of the three is necessary for a compatible system to exist, since reducible
74+ ones do.
6975Once those hypotheses were added the statement was still stronger than the
7076theorem it named, in two independent ways. The conclusion placed companions over
71- ` E_λ ` itself, where Lafforgue's theorem produces them over an algebraic closure
72- and descent to ` E_λ ` for a fixed ` E ` is obstructed by the Schur index in
73- ` Br(E_λ) ` . The irreducibility hypothesis was irreducibility over ` E_λ ` , which is
77+ ` E_λ ` itself, where Theorem VII.6(v) gives the companion over a finite extension
78+ of ` E_λ ` and descent to ` E_λ ` for a fixed ` E ` is obstructed by the class of a
79+ central simple algebra in ` Br(E_λ) ` . Chin's theorem is the stronger uniform
80+ coefficient-field descent, available after enlarging ` E ` . The irreducibility hypothesis was irreducibility over ` E_λ ` , which is
7481weaker than absolute irreducibility, so using it strengthened the theorem. Both
7582had been filed as limitations, which reads as having proved less when the truth
7683was that it asserted more.
@@ -83,7 +90,12 @@ with the right fraction field, and fields and discrete valuation rings qualify,
8390so the place set could be empty or a single point. The conclusion was then
8491satisfiable cheaply, since the roots of the prescribed polynomial are ` λ ` -adic
8592units, ` GL_n(O_λ) ` is profinite and ` Ẑ ` is procyclic, so a companion-matrix
86- representation of the constant-field quotient satisfies everything. Requiring the
93+ representation of the constant-field quotient satisfies everything. What made
94+ that sufficient is that the conclusion of the version in question imposed no
95+ irreducibility on the members of the family. It would not satisfy the present
96+ conclusion: a representation factoring through a procyclic group has image
97+ generated by a single matrix ` C ` , so its span lies in ` M[C] ` and has dimension at
98+ most ` n ` , short of the ` n² ` that ` SpanFull ` demands once ` n > 1 ` . Requiring the
8799base ring to be a finite-type algebra over the constant field makes its spectrum
88100a smooth affine curve carrying cofinitely many of the places, and closes this.
89101
@@ -92,8 +104,8 @@ Three claims were described as doing more than they do.
92104compatibility condition, which needs inertia rather than conjugacy, and a
93105docstring continued to assert that claim, and to cite the deleted axiom, after
94106the code had been corrected. Unit-ness of the Frobenius roots was attributed to
95- purity, when it is part (c ) of Deligne's Conjecture 1.2.10, proved for curves by
96- Lafforgue, and a conclusion separate from the weight condition; ` (3 + 4i)/5 ` has
107+ purity, when it is part (iii ) of Deligne's Conjecture 1.2.10, labelled (c) in
108+ Drinfeld's abbreviated restatement, proved for curves by Lafforgue, and a conclusion separate from the weight condition; ` (3 + 4i)/5 ` has
97109absolute value ` 1 ` at every archimedean place and is not a ` 5 ` -adic unit. The
98110equivalence between the span condition and absolute irreducibility was stated
99111without its scope, which is a field and ` n ≥ 1 ` .
@@ -110,31 +122,59 @@ hand-written versions were shadowing them. The claim came from an early survey
110122and was repeated without reading the source. It survived every review, because a
111123claim that something is missing from a library is not a mathematical claim and
112124nothing in the reviews was aimed at that kind of claim. The instances are deleted
113- and the file builds on Mathlib's.
125+ and the file builds on Mathlib's. A related inventory error in the same area, an
126+ undercount of what the étale-site file contains, was corrected at the same time;
127+ the conclusion it supported, that no ` π₁^ét(X) ` is available, survives.
114128
115129## Why the unramifiedness hypothesis is not redundant
116130
117131It is tempting to drop it. Continuity forces the image into a compact subgroup of
118132` GL_n(E_λ) ` , which stabilises a lattice, so the representation modulo each power
119133of the maximal ideal factors through a finite extension ramified at finitely many
120134places. That gives a finite ramification set at every finite level, but the
121- level-wise sets need not stabilise, and for ` n ≥ 2 ` they need not. A Kummer class
122- built from ` b_m = ∏_{i ≤ m} π_i^{ℓ^i} ` gives a continuous upper-triangular
135+ level-wise sets need not stabilise, and for ` n ≥ 2 ` they need not. For
136+ ` ℓ ≠ char K ` , a Kummer class built from ` b_m = ∏_{i ≤ m} π_i^{ℓ^i} ` , with places
137+ ` v_i ` and elements ` π_i ` chosen so that ` v_i(π_i) = 1 ` and each later ` π_j ` is a
138+ unit at the earlier ` v_i ` , gives a continuous upper-triangular
123139` ρ = (χ_ℓ, c; 0, 1) : G_K → GL₂(ℤ_ℓ) ` ramified at every ` v_i ` . Ramakrishna,
124140* Infinitely ramified Galois representations* , Ann. of Math. 151 (2000), 793–815,
125- shows that even full image is compatible with infinite ramification;
126- Khare–Rajan, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2001, no. 12, 601–607, show the ramified set
127- has density zero but can still be infinite. For ` n = 1 ` the claim is true, since
128- the torsion of ` 1 + 𝔪 ` is finite and class field theory closes the argument. This
129- is why finite ramification is an explicit condition in the Fontaine–Mazur
130- conjecture rather than a consequence of continuity, and it is why the hypothesis
131- is stated here.
141+ constructs over ` ℚ ` surjective ` GL₂(ℤ_ℓ) ` -valued representations ramified at
142+ infinitely many primes, so even full image is compatible with infinite
143+ ramification;
144+ Khare–Rajan, Int. Math. Res. Not. 2001, no. 12, 601–607, show that for continuous
145+ semisimple representations of the absolute Galois group of a number field the
146+ ramified set has density zero while remaining possibly infinite, and remark that
147+ the same holds over function fields when the coefficient residue characteristic
148+ differs from the field characteristic. Semisimplicity is essential there; the
149+ Kummer representations above are not semisimple. For ` n = 1 ` the claim is true,
150+ since the torsion of ` 1 + 𝔪 ` is finite and class field theory closes the
151+ argument.
152+
153+ The example settles continuity alone. It does not show the hypothesis independent
154+ of the others: the representation displayed is reducible, so it fails ` SpanFull ` ,
155+ and its determinant ` χ_ℓ ` has infinite order. Whether continuity together with
156+ absolute irreducibility and finite-order determinant forces finite ramification is
157+ not settled here. The hypothesis is stated because nothing available establishes
158+ that it can be dropped, which is also why finite ramification is an explicit
159+ condition in the Fontaine–Mazur conjecture rather than a consequence of
160+ continuity.
132161
133162## What is not machine-checked
134163
135164Compile status and the axiom profile are checked in CI; see ` Axioms.lean ` and
136- ` .github/workflows/build.yml ` . No instances are declared here, so the instance
137- diamond an earlier version created no longer arises.
165+ ` .github/workflows/build.yml ` . The axiom check covers the declarations named
166+ there and their dependency closures; a ` sorry ` in a declaration outside those
167+ would not be caught, since ` lake build ` exits successfully on the warning it
168+ emits. No instances are declared on types Mathlib owns, so the diamond an earlier
169+ version created no longer arises; the five instances declared here are the
170+ projections of ` CompanionRep ` , whose carrier is defined here.
171+
172+ Three notions defined here have close Mathlib counterparts that are not used.
173+ ` LambdaAdicRep ` is a ` ContinuousMonoidHom ` ; the recurring conjunction
174+ ` Q.IsPrime ∧ Q.under A = v.asIdeal ` restates ` Ideal.LiesOver ` , the idiom
175+ ` RingTheory/Frobenius.lean ` itself uses; and ` Field.absoluteGaloisGroup ` is the
176+ fixed-closure form of ` AbsGal ` . Each is equivalent to what is written, and each
177+ would be the better choice in a version aimed at upstreaming.
138178
139179Lafforgue's Theorem VII.6 and Deligne's Conjecture 1.2.10 were verified through
140180Drinfeld's verbatim quotations and bibliography rather than the originals. The
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