Integral Artin motives I: Smooth objects and the ordinary t-structure
Raphaël Ruimy
TL;DR
The paper develops an integral framework for smooth Artin motives by linking them to étale local systems and Artin representations, and constructs the ordinary motivic t-structure on Artin motives with integral coefficients. It proves that the ℓ-adic realization is t-exact and extends conservativity results from rational to integral coefficients by incorporating v-adic and λ-adic realizations within the Bhatt–Scholze/pro-étale formalism. A detailed description of smooth Artin motives is given via equivalences with lisse and Ind-lisse étale sheaves, and a stratified approach expresses constructible Artin motives as gluings of representation-theoretic data. The work also establishes that torsion motives are Artin motives and develops both the ordinary and perverse (in the sequel) motivic t-structures, providing a robust bridge between motivic and étale–cohomological frameworks with explicit hearts and conservativity results.
Abstract
We link smooth Artin motives to étale local systems and Artin representations. We then construct the ordinary motivic t-structure on Artin motives with integral coefficients and show that the $\ell$-adic realization functor is t-exact.
