Download or read book Etale Cohomology Theory written by Lei Fu and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Edition available hereEtale 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.