Weil Conjectures - Deligne's First Proof

Deligne's First Proof

Verdier (1974), Serre (1975), Katz (1976) and Freitag & Kiehl (1988) gave expository accounts of the first proof Deligne (1974). Much of the background in l-adic cohomology is described in (Deligne 1977).

Deligne's first proof of the Weil conjectures used the following steps:

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