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Among Grothendieck’s manifold contributions to algebraic geometry is his emphasis on the search for a universal cohomology theory for algebraic varieties and a conjectured description of it in terms of motives [Ma]. Various authors have recently set out to describe the properties of and conjecturally define a cohomology theory for algebraic varieties, which has been baptized “motivic cohomology” by Beilinson, MacPherson, and Schechtman ([BMS],[Be],[Bl],[T],[L1],[L2]). It is hoped that this theory, when and if it is fully developed, will in some sense be universal and thus provide at least a partial response to Grothendieck’s question.
The author would like to acknowledge his gratitude to the I.H.E.S. and Max Planck Institut, where much of this work was done. He was partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Dedicated to A. Grothendieck on his 60th birthday
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Lichtenbaum, S. (2007). New Results on Weight-Two Motivic Cohomology. In: Cartier, P., Illusie, L., Katz, N.M., Laumon, G., Manin, Y.I., Ribet, K.A. (eds) The Grothendieck Festschrift. Modern Birkhäuser Classics, vol 88. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4576-2_2
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