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Twisted divided powers and applications

Algebraic Geometry 2017-11-07 v1

Abstract

In order to give a formal treatment of differential equations in positive characteristic p, it is necessary to use divided powers. One runs into an analog problem in the theory of q-difference equations when q is a pth root of unity. We introduce here a notion of twisted divided powers (relative to q) and show that one can recover the twisted Weyl algebra and obtain a twisted p-curvature map that describes the center of the twisted Weyl algebra. We also build a divided p-Frobenius that will give, by duality, a formal Azumaya splitting of the twisted Weyl algebra as well as a twisted Simpson correspondence.

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@article{arxiv.1711.01907,
  title  = {Twisted divided powers and applications},
  author = {Michel Gros and Bernard Le Stum and Adolfo Quirós},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.01907},
  year   = {2017}
}
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