From Handwiki - Reading time: 3 minIn mathematics, Tate duality or Poitou–Tate duality is a duality theorem for Galois cohomology groups of modules over the Galois group of an algebraic number field or local field, introduced by John Tate (1962) and Georges Poitou (1967).
For a p-adic local field [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math], local Tate duality says there is a perfect pairing of the finite groups arising from Galois cohomology:
where [math]\displaystyle{ M }[/math] is a finite group scheme, [math]\displaystyle{ M' }[/math] its dual [math]\displaystyle{ \operatorname{Hom}(M,G_m) }[/math], and [math]\displaystyle{ \mathbb{G}_m }[/math] is the multiplicative group. For a local field of characteristic [math]\displaystyle{ p\gt 0 }[/math], the statement is similar, except that the pairing takes values in [math]\displaystyle{ H^2(k, \mu) = \bigcup_{p \nmid n} \tfrac{1}{n} \Z/\Z }[/math].[1] The statement also holds when [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math] is an Archimedean field, though the definition of the cohomology groups looks somewhat different in this case.
Given a finite group scheme [math]\displaystyle{ M }[/math] over a global field [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math], global Tate duality relates the cohomology of [math]\displaystyle{ M }[/math] with that of [math]\displaystyle{ M' = \operatorname{Hom}(M,G_m) }[/math] using the local pairings constructed above. This is done via the localization maps
where [math]\displaystyle{ v }[/math] varies over all places of [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math], and where [math]\displaystyle{ \prod' }[/math] denotes a restricted product with respect to the unramified cohomology groups. Summing the local pairings gives a canonical perfect pairing
One part of Poitou-Tate duality states that, under this pairing, the image of [math]\displaystyle{ H^r(k, M) }[/math] has annihilator equal to the image of [math]\displaystyle{ H^{2-r}(k, M') }[/math] for [math]\displaystyle{ r = 0, 1, 2 }[/math].
The map [math]\displaystyle{ \alpha_{r, M} }[/math] has a finite kernel for all [math]\displaystyle{ r }[/math], and Tate also constructs a canonical perfect pairing
These dualities are often presented in the form of a nine-term exact sequence
Here, the asterisk denotes the Pontryagin dual of a given locally compact abelian group.
All of these statements were presented by Tate in a more general form depending on a set of places [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math] of [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math], with the above statements being the form of his theorems for the case where [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math] contains all places of [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math]. For the more general result, see e.g. (Neukirch Schmidt).
Among other statements, Poitou–Tate duality establishes a perfect pairing between certain Shafarevich groups. Given a global field [math]\displaystyle{ k }[/math], a set S of primes, and the maximal extension [math]\displaystyle{ k_S }[/math] which is unramified outside S, the Shafarevich groups capture, broadly speaking, those elements in the cohomology of [math]\displaystyle{ \operatorname{Gal}(k_S/k) }[/math] which vanish in the Galois cohomology of the local fields pertaining to the primes in S.[2]
An extension to the case where the ring of S-integers [math]\displaystyle{ \mathcal{O}_S }[/math] is replaced by a regular scheme of finite type over [math]\displaystyle{ \operatorname{Spec} \mathcal{O}_S }[/math] was shown by (Geisser Schmidt).