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Let G be a split, simple, simply connected, algebraic group over Q. The degree 4, weight 2 motivic cohomology group of the classifying space BG of G is identified with Z. We construct cocycles representing the generator of this group, known as the second universal motivic Chern class. If G = SL(m), there is a canonical cocycle, defined by the first author (1993). For any group G, we define a collection of cocycles parametrised by cluster coordinate systems on the space of G-orbits on the cube of the principal affine space G/U. Cocycles for different clusters are related by explicit coboundaries, constructed using cluster transformations relating the clusters. The cocycle has three components. The construction of the last one is canonical and elementary; it does not use clusters, and provides a canonical cocycle for the motivic generator of the degree 3 cohomology class of the complex manifold G(C). However to lift this component to the whole cocycle we need cluster coordinates: the construction of the first two components uses crucially the cluster structure of the moduli spaces A(G,S) related to the moduli space of G-local systems on S. In retrospect, it partially explains why the cluster coordinates on the space A(G,S) should exist. This construction has numerous applications, including an explicit construction of the universal extension of the group G by K_2, the line bundle on Bun(G) generating its Picard group, Kac-Moody groups, etc. Another application is an explicit combinatorial construction of the second motivic Chern class of a G-bundle. It is a motivic analog of the work of Gabrielov-Gelfand-Losik (1974), for any G.
We prove that the $infty$-category of motivic spectra satisfies Milnor excision: if $Ato B$ is a morphism of commutative rings sending an ideal $Isubset A$ isomorphically onto an ideal of $B$, then a motivic spectrum over $A$ is equivalent to a pair of motivic spectra over $B$ and $A/I$ that are identified over $B/IB$. Consequently, any cohomology theory represented by a motivic spectrum satisfies Milnor excision. We also prove Milnor excision for Ayoubs etale motives over schemes of finite virtual cohomological dimension.
If $f:S to S$ is a finite locally free morphism of schemes, we construct a symmetric monoidal norm functor $f_otimes: mathcal H_*(S) tomathcal H_*(S)$, where $mathcal H_*(S)$ is the pointed unstable motivic homotopy category over $S$. If $f$ is finite etale, we show that it stabilizes to a functor $f_otimes: mathcal{SH}(S) to mathcal{SH}(S)$, where $mathcal{SH}(S)$ is the $mathbb P^1$-stable motivic homotopy category over $S$. Using these norm functors, we define the notion of a normed motivic spectrum, which is an enhancement of a motivic $E_infty$-ring spectrum. The main content of this text is a detailed study of the norm functors and of normed motivic spectra, and the construction of examples. In particular: we investigate the interaction of norms with Grothendiecks Galois theory, with Betti realization, and with Voevodskys slice filtration; we prove that the norm functors categorify Rosts multiplicative transfers on Grothendieck-Witt rings; and we construct normed spectrum structures on the motivic cohomology spectrum $Hmathbb Z$, the homotopy K-theory spectrum $KGL$, and the algebraic cobordism spectrum $MGL$. The normed spectrum structure on $Hmathbb Z$ is a common refinement of Fulton and MacPhersons mutliplicative transfers on Chow groups and of Voevodskys power operations in motivic cohomology.
We introduce and study the homotopy theory of motivic spaces and spectra parametrized by quotient stacks [X/G], where G is a linearly reductive linear algebraic group. We extend to this equivariant setting the main foundational results of motivic homotopy theory: the (unstable) purity and gluing theorems of Morel and Voevodsky and the (stable) ambidexterity theorem of Ayoub. Our proof of the latter is different than Ayoubs and is of interest even when G is trivial. Using these results, we construct a formalism of six operations for equivariant motivic spectra, and we deduce that any cohomology theory for G-schemes that is represented by an absolute motivic spectrum satisfies descent for the cdh topology.
We obtain geometric models for the infinite loop spaces of the motivic spectra $mathrm{MGL}$, $mathrm{MSL}$, and $mathbf{1}$ over a field. They are motivically equivalent to $mathbb{Z}times mathrm{Hilb}_infty^mathrm{lci}(mathbb{A}^infty)^+$, $mathbb{Z}times mathrm{Hilb}_infty^mathrm{or}(mathbb{A}^infty)^+$, and $mathbb{Z}times mathrm{Hilb}_infty^mathrm{fr}(mathbb{A}^infty)^+$, respectively, where $mathrm{Hilb}_d^mathrm{lci}(mathbb{A}^n)$ (resp. $mathrm{Hilb}_d^mathrm{or}(mathbb{A}^n)$, $mathrm{Hilb}_d^mathrm{fr}(mathbb{A}^n)$) is the Hilbert scheme of lci points (resp. oriented points, framed points) of degree $d$ in $mathbb{A}^n$, and $+$ is Quillens plus construction. Moreover, we show that the plus construction is redundant in positive characteristic.
In this paper, we construct a refined, relative version of the etale realization functor of motivic spaces, first studied by Isaksen and Schmidt. Their functor goes from the $infty$-category of motivic spaces over a base scheme $S$ to the $infty$-category of $p$-profinite spaces, where $p$ is a prime which is invertible in all residue fields of $S$. In the first part of this paper, we refine the target of this functor to an $infty$-category where $p$-profinite spaces is a further completion. Roughly speaking, this $infty$-category is generated under cofiltered limits by those spaces whose associated local system on $S$ is $A^1$-invariant. We then construct a new, relative version of their etale realization functor which takes into account the geometry and arithmetic of the base scheme $S$. For example, when $S$ is the spectrum of a field $k$, our functor lands in a certain $infty$-category equivariant for the absolute Galois group. Our construction relies on a relative version of etale homotopy types in the sense of Artin-Mazur-Friedlander, which we also develop in some detail, expanding on previous work of Barnea-Harpaz-Schlank. We then stabilize our functor, in the $S^1$-direction, to produce an etale realization functor for motivic $S^1$-spectra (in other words, Nisnevich sheaves of spectra which are $A^1$-invariant). To this end, we also develop an $infty$-categorical version of the theory of profinite spectra, first explored by Quick. As an application, we refine the construction of the etale $K$-theory of Dwyer and Friedlander, and define its non-commutative extension. This latter invariant should be seen as an $ell$-adic analog of Blancs theory of semi-topological $K$-theory of non-commutative schemes. We then formulate and prove an analog of Blancs conjecture on the torsion part of this theory, generalizing the work of Antieau and Heller.