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Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory I: Construction of Hodge Theaters

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22 SHINICHI MOCHIZUKI<br />

arises from a “deep sensitivity to particular choices <strong>of</strong> basepoints” — is the phenomenon<br />

<strong>of</strong> conjugate synchronization, i.e., <strong>of</strong> synchronization between conjugacy<br />

indeterminacies <strong>of</strong> distinct copies <strong>of</strong> various local Galois groups, which, as was<br />

mentioned in §I1, will play an important role in the theory <strong>of</strong> [IUTchII], [IUTchIII].<br />

The various rigidity properties <strong>of</strong> the étale theta function established in [EtTh]<br />

constitute yet another inter-<strong>universal</strong> phenomenon that will play an important role<br />

in theory <strong>of</strong> [IUTchII], [IUTchIII].<br />

§I4. Relation to Complex and p-adic Teichmüller <strong>Theory</strong><br />

In order to understand the sense in which the theory <strong>of</strong> the present series<br />

<strong>of</strong> papers may be thought <strong>of</strong> as a sort <strong>of</strong> “Teichmüller theory” <strong>of</strong> number fields<br />

equipped with an elliptic curve, it is useful to recall certain basic, well-known facts<br />

concerning the classical complex Teichmüller theory <strong>of</strong> Riemann surfaces <strong>of</strong><br />

finite type [cf., e.g., [Lehto], Chapter V, §8]. Although such a Riemann surface is<br />

one-dimensional from a complex, holomorphic point <strong>of</strong> view, this single complex<br />

dimension may be thought <strong>of</strong> consisting <strong>of</strong> two underlying real analytic dimensions.<br />

Relative to a suitable canonical holomorphic coordinate z = x + iy on the Riemann<br />

surface, the Teichmüller deformation may be written in the form<br />

z ↦→ ζ = ξ + iη = Kx + iy<br />

—where1

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