On a conjecture of Bloch and Kato on local motivic $\ell$-adic representations

(Un exposé de Uwe Jannsen au séminaire de théorie des nombres de Chevaleret le 13 déembre 2005)

Résumé :

  In their seminal paper on the Tamagawa number conjecture, Bloch and Kato proposed a certain conjecture on the $\ell$-adic realizations of motives over number fields. It just concerns the action of the local Galois group $G_v$ at a place $v$ and is only a question if the reduction at $v$ is bad. The conjecture is that the adelic representation contains a $\hat Z$-lattice $T$ such that the torsion of $T_{G_v}$ is finite. In joint work with Petra Seidel, this is be proved for (the tensor category generated by) curves, abelian varieties and surfaces. In fact, we are led to a finer conjecture, in terms of the monodromy filtration, which has better functorial properties for the tensor product, and are able to prove this stronger conjecture in the mentioned cases.