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Nearly Perfect Complexes and Galois Module Structure

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 December 2007

T. CHINBURG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. 19104, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
M. KOLSTER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L86 4K1. e-mail: [email protected]
G. PAPPAS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State Univ., Wells Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
V. SNAITH
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom. e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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We define a generalization of the Euler characteristic of a perfect complex of modules for the group ring of a finite group. This is combined with work of Lichtenbaum and Saito to define an equivariant Euler characteristic for G on regular projective surfaces over Z having a free action of a finite group. In positive characteristic we relate the Euler characteristic of G to the leading terms of the expansions of L-functions at s=1.

Type
Research Article
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© 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers