An explicit approach to residues on and dualizing sheaves of arithmetic surfaces

Matthew Morrow

Published 2009-11-03, updated 2011-01-14Version 2

We develop a theory of residues for arithmetic surfaces, establish the reciprocity law around a point, and use the residue maps to explicitly construct the dualizing sheaf of the surface. These are generalisations of known results for surfaces over a perfect field. In an appendix, explicit local ramification theory is used to recover the fact that in the case of a local complete intersection the dualizing and canonical sheaves coincide.