Download or read book Etale Cohomology Theory written by Lei Fu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etale cohomology is an important branch in arithmetic geometry. This book covers the main materials in SGA 1, SGA 4, SGA 4 1/2 and SGA 5 on etale cohomology theory, which includes decent theory, etale fundamental groups, Galois cohomology, etale cohomology, derived categories, base change theorems, duality, and l-adic cohomology. The prerequisites for reading this book are basic algebraic geometry and advanced commutative algebra.