nLab Weil cohomology theory

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A Weil cohomology theory is defined to be a cohomology theory on a suitable class of projective varieties which satisfies some natural set of axioms among which is notably Poincaré duality and the existence of a Lefschetz fixed point theorem.

These axioms are named after André Weil, who noticed that the existence of such a cohomology theory would already imply the Weil conjectures about the behaviour of the number of points in algebraic varieties.

Examples of Weil cohomology theories, hence of cohomology theories satisfying these axioms, are the variants of étale cohomology known as l-adic cohomology or better pro-étale cohomology.

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