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On the $p$-supports of a holonomic $\mathcal{D}$-module

Algebraic Geometry 2018-12-18 v3

Abstract

For a smooth variety YY over a perfect field of positive characteristic, the sheaf DYD_Y of crystalline differential operators on YY (also called the sheaf of PDPD-differential operators) is known to be an Azumaya algebra over TY,T^*_{Y'}, the cotangent space of the Frobenius twist YY' of Y.Y. Thus to a sheaf of modules MM over DYD_Y one can assign a closed subvariety of TY,T^*_{Y'}, called the pp-support, namely the support of MM seen as a sheaf on TY.T^*_{Y'}. We study here the family of pp-supports assigned to the reductions modulo primes pp of a holonomic D\mathcal{D}-module. We prove that the Azumaya algebra of differential operators splits on the regular locus of the pp-support and that the pp-support is a Lagrangian subvariety of the cotangent space, for pp large enough. The latter was conjectured by Kontsevich. Our approach also provides a new proof of the involutivity of the singular support of a holonomic D\mathcal{D}-module, by reduction modulo p.p.

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@article{arxiv.1012.4081,
  title  = {On the $p$-supports of a holonomic $\mathcal{D}$-module},
  author = {Thomas Bitoun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4081},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

The article has been rewritten with much improved exposition as well as some additional results, e.g. Corollary 6.3.1. This is the final version, accepted for publication in Inventiones Mathematicae