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Dieudonn\'e theory for $n$-smooth group schemes

Algebraic Geometry 2024-08-29 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

For all n1n \geq 1, there is a notion of nn-smooth group scheme over any Fp\mathbb{F}_p-algebra RR, which may be thought of as a ``Frobenius analogue" of nn-truncated Barsotti-Tate groups over RR. We show that the category of nn-smooth commutative group schemes over RR is equivalent to a certain full subcategory of Dieudonn\'e modules over RR. As a consequence, we show that the moduli stack Smn\mathrm{Sm}_n of nn-smooth commutative group schemes is smooth over Fp\mathbb{F}_p and that the natural truncation morphism Smn+1Smn\mathrm{Sm}_{n+1} \to \mathrm{Sm}_n is smooth and surjective. These results affirmatively answer conjectures of Drinfeld.

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@article{arxiv.2408.15333,
  title  = {Dieudonn\'e theory for $n$-smooth group schemes},
  author = {Casimir Kothari and Joshua Mundinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15333},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages. Comments welcome!

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