The local pro-p anabelian geometry of curves

Abstract

Let X be a connected scheme. Then one can associate (after Grothendieck) to X its algebraic fundamental group π1(X). This group π1(X) is a profinite group which is uniquely determined (up to inner automorphisms) by the property that the category of finite, discrete sets equipped with a continuous π1(X)-action is equivalent to the category of finite etale coverings of X. Moreover, the assignment X → π1(X) is a functor from the category of connected schemes (and morphisms of schemes) to the category of profinite topological groups and continuous outer homomorphisms (i.e., continuous homomorphisms of topological groups, where we identify any two homomorphisms that can be obtained from one another by composition with an inner automorphism).