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Nekovar duality over p-adic Lie extensions of global fields

Poitou-Tate duality for the Galois group of an extension of a global field with appropriately restricted ramification can be seen as taking place between the cohomology of a compact or discrete module and the compactly-supported cohomology of its Pontryagin dual. Nekovar proved a derived variant of this in which the module is replaced by a bounded complex of modules over the group ring of R that are finitely generated over R, where R is a complete commutative local Noetherian ring with finite residue field. Here, the Pontryagin dual is replaced by the Grothendieck dual, which is itself a bounded complex of modules with finitely generated cohomology. Nekovar's duality then takes place in the derived category of R-modules. We extend Nekovar's result to the setting of noncommutative Iwasawa theory. That is, we exhibit a duality between complexes computing Iwasawa cohomology and its compactly supported variant in the derived category of finitely generated modules over the Iwasawa algebra over R of a p-adic Lie extension.