Hyperdescent and étale K-theory

Abstract

We study the étale sheafification of algebraic K-theory, called étale K-theory. Our main results show that étale K-theory is very close to a noncommutative invariant called Selmer K-theory, which is defined at the level of categories. Consequently, we show that étale K-theory has surprisingly well-behaved properties, integrally and without finiteness assumptions. A key theoretical ingredient is the distinction, which we investigate in detail, between sheaves and hypersheaves of spectra on étale sites.

89 pages, v3: various corrections and edits