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On the deformation of a Barsotti-Tate group over a curve

Algebraic Geometry 2013-03-13 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study deformations of pairs (C,G) where G is a height 2 BT(or BT_n) group over a complete curve on algebraically closed field k of characteristic p. We prove that, if the curve C is a versal deformation of G, then there exists a unique lifting of the pair to the Witt ring W. We apply this result in the case of Shimura curves to obtain a lifting criterion.

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@article{arxiv.1303.2954,
  title  = {On the deformation of a Barsotti-Tate group over a curve},
  author = {Jie Xia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2954},
  year   = {2013}
}

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20 pages, no figures. Comments welcome