Semi-continuity for conductor divisors of \'etale sheaves

Abstract

In this article, we prove a semi-continuity property for both conductor divisors and logarithmic conductor divisors for \'etale sheaves on higher relative dimensions in a geometric situation. It generalizes a semi-continuity result for conductors of \'etale sheaves on relative curves to higher relative dimensions, and it can be considered as a higher dimensional $\ell$-adic analogy of Andr\'e's result on the semi-continuity of Poincar\'e-Katz ranks of meromorphic connections on smooth relative curves.