The Tate Conjecture as a Parametric Proposition: A Machine-Checked Lean 4 Interface without Axioms

The Tate conjecture stated in Lean 4 as a proposition over an explicit structure TateSetting (replacing four earlier user-declared axioms), carrying hosts, cycle-class types, Galois invariants in étale cohomology and a cycle class map. Proved for every setting: the statement is exactly surjectivity of the cycle class map, and the fourfold-surfaces case is the codimension-2 statement. Not proved: the Tate conjecture or any case of it. The Lean development builds in CI (green on the commit archived here) with no sorry and no user-declared axioms. Source: https://github.com/BenFrohman/TateConjecture at commit f7235b3ba96d81a281d60d70cfb2ff1e98fa5ab5.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-11-04
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23942456
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Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
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The Tate Conjecture as a Parametric Proposition: A Machine-Checked Lean 4 Interface without Axioms

Benjamin Frohman
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
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The Tate Conjecture as a Parametric Proposition: A Machine-Checked Lean 4 Interface without Axioms

Benjamin Frohman
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Abstract

The Tate conjecture stated in Lean 4 as a proposition over an explicit structure TateSetting (replacing four earlier user-declared axioms), carrying hosts, cycle-class types, Galois invariants in étale cohomology and a cycle class map. Proved for every setting: the statement is exactly surjectivity of the cycle class map, and the fourfold-surfaces case is the codimension-2 statement. Not proved: the Tate conjecture or any case of it. The Lean development builds in CI (green on the commit archived here) with no sorry and no user-declared axioms. Source: https://github.com/BenFrohman/TateConjecture at commit f7235b3ba96d81a281d60d70cfb2ff1e98fa5ab5.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory
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