2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/65239Building on work of Crew, we give a rigid cohomological analogue of the main result of Deligne's "Weil II"; this makes it possible to give a purely p-adic proof of the Weil conjectures. Ingredients include a p-adic analogue of Laumon's application of the geometric Fourier transform in the l-adic setting, as well as recent results on p-adic differential equations, due to Andre, Christol, Crew, Kedlaya, Matsuda, Mebkhout, and Tsuzuki.57 pages; v3: expanded discussion of Grothendieck-Ogg-Shafarevich formula; other light correctionsNumber TheoryAlgebraic Geometry14F30, 14G10text