Noncommutative numerical motives, Tannakian structures, and motivic Galois groups

  • Matilde Marcolli

    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
  • Gonçalo Tabuada

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

Abstract

In this article we further the study of noncommutative numerical motives, initiated in [30, 31]. By exploring the change-of-coefficients mechanism, we start by improving some of the main results of [30]. Then, making use of the notion of Schur-finiteness, we prove that the category NNum of noncommutative numerical motives is (neutral) super-Tannakian. As in the commutative world, NNum is not Tannakian. In order to solve this problem we promote periodic cyclic homology to a well-defined symmetric monoidal functor on the category of noncommutative Chow motives. This allows us to introduce the correct noncommutative analogues and of Grothendieck's standard conjectures and . Assuming , we prove that NNum can be made into a Tannakian category NNum by modifying its symmetry isomorphism constraints. By further assuming , we neutralize the Tannakian category Num using . Via the (super-)Tannakian formalism, we then obtain well-defined noncommutative motivic Galois (super-)groups. Finally, making use of Deligne-Milne's theory of Tate triples, we construct explicit morphisms relating these noncommutative motivic Galois (super-)groups with the classical ones as suggested by Kontsevich.

Cite this article

Matilde Marcolli, Gonçalo Tabuada, Noncommutative numerical motives, Tannakian structures, and motivic Galois groups. J. Eur. Math. Soc. 18 (2016), no. 3, pp. 623–655

DOI 10.4171/JEMS/598