Weibel's conjecture

In mathematics, Weibel's conjecture gives a criterion for vanishing of negative algebraic K-theory groups. The conjecture was proposed by Charles Weibel (1980) and proven in full generality by Kerz, Strunk & Tamme (2018) using methods from derived algebraic geometry. Previously partial cases had been proven by Morrow (2016), Kelly (2014), Cisinski (2013), Geisser & Hesselholt (2010), and Cortiñas et al. (2008).

Statement of the conjecture

Weibel's conjecture asserts that for a Noetherian scheme X of finite Krull dimension d, the K-groups vanish in degrees < −d:

$K_{i}(X)=0{\text{ for }}i<-d$

and asserts moreover a homotopy invariance property for negative K-groups

$K_{i}(X)=K_{i}(X\times \mathbb {A} ^{r}){\text{ for }}i\leq -d{\text{ and arbitrary }}r.$

References

• Weibel, Charles (1980), "K-theory and analytic isomorphisms", Inventiones Mathematicae, 61 (2): 177–197, doi:10.1007/bf01390120

• Kerz, Moritz; Strunk, Florian; Tamme, Georg (2018), "Algebraic K-theory and descent for blow-ups", Inventiones Mathematicae, 211 (2): 523–577, arXiv:1611.08466, doi:10.1007/s00222-017-0752-2, MR 3748313