On l-independence for the etale cohomology of rigid spaces over local   fields
  We investigate the action of the Weil group on the compactly supported l-adic etale cohomology groups of rigid spaces over a local field. We prove that the alternating sum of the traces of the action is an integer and is independent of l when either the rigid space is smooth or the characteristic of the base field is equal to 0.   We modify the argument of T. Saito to prove a result on l-independence for nearby cycle cohomology, which leads to our l-independence result for smooth rigid spaces.   In the general case, we use the finiteness theorem of R. Huber, which requires the restriction on the characteristic of the base field. 
Yoichi Mieda