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$q$-crystals and $q$-connections

Algebraic Geometry 2020-10-07 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We study how the category of qq-connections depends on the choice of coordinates. We exploit Bhatt's and Scholze's qq-crystalline site, which is based on a coordinate free formulation of qq-PD structures, in order to relate qq-crystals and qq-connections in the pp-adic setting. This yields a natural equivalence between the the categories of qq-connections for different choices of coordinates in the pp-adic setting. The equivalence can be described explicitly in terms of differential operators. In order to obtain a global equivalence, we patch the pp-adic differential operators to create a global one. The process is not entirely formal, and we are only able to obtain a global equivalence after inverting 22.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2010.02504,
  title  = {$q$-crystals and $q$-connections},
  author = {Andre Chatzistamatiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.02504},
  year   = {2020}
}
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