New York Journal of Mathematics
Volume 19 (2013) 597-645

  

Moritz Kerz and Shuji Saito

Cohomological Hasse principle and resolution of quotient singularities

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Published: October 4, 2013
Keywords: resolution of singularities, Hasse principle
Subject: 14E15, 14E16, 11G45

Abstract
In this paper we study weight homology of singular schemes. Weight homology is an invariant of a singular scheme defined in terms of hypercoverings of resolution of singularities. Our main result is a McKay principle for weight homology of quotient singularities, i.e., we describe weight homology of a quotient scheme in terms of weight homology of an equivariant scheme. Our method is to reduce the geometric McKay principle for weight homology to Kato's cohomological Hasse principle for arithmetic schemes. The McKay principle for weight homology implies the McKay principle for the homotopy type of the dual complex of the exceptional divisors of a resolution of a quotient singularity. As a consequence we show that the dual complex is contractible for isolated quotient singularities.

Author information

Moritz Kerz:
NWF I-Mathematik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
moritz.kerz@mathematik.uni-regensburg.de

Shuji Saito:
Interactive Research Center of Science, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
sshuji@msb.biglobe.ne.jp