Corlette and Simpson classified Zariski dense rank-two representations of fundamental groups of quasi-projective manifolds under the aditional assumption that the monodromy is quasi-unipotent at infinity. I will explain how to avoid such extra assumption, and how to obtain a similar classification for singular transversely projective foliations on projective manifolds.
Let K be a non-archimedean complete normed field, K_alg the algebraic closure of K and let L be the language of normed fields augmented with symbols for the strictly convergent powerseries over K. Strictly convergent rigid subanalytic sets over K are the subsets of (K_alg)^n definable in L. I will survey what is known about these sets, including recent joint results with Raf Cluckers.
The dimension of the étale cohomology groups, with coefficients in Z/lZ, of a scheme of finite type over an algebraically closed field of characteristic different from l, is computable in the sense of Church-Turing. To prove this, we construct a hypercovering of X by schemes (analogous to Artin's ?Roegood neighborhoods?R) having algorithmically testable geometric properties which allow to reduce the computation of the cohomology of X to that of their completed fundamental group.
