On the Lau group scheme
Abstract
In a 2013 article, Eike Lau constructed a canonical morphism from the stack of -truncated Barsotti-Tate groups over to the stack of -truncated displays. He also proved that this morphism is a gerbe banded by a commutative group scheme. In this paper we describe the group scheme explicitly. The stack of -truncated Barsotti-Tate groups over has a generalization related to any pair , where is a smooth group scheme over and is a 1-bounded cocharacter of . The same is true for the stack of -truncated displays. We conjecture that in this more general situation the first stack is a gerbe over the second one banded by a commutative group scheme, and we give a conjectural description of this group scheme. We also give a conjectural description of the stack of -truncated Barsotti-Tate groups over the formal spectrum of and of its -generalization.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2307.06194,
title = {On the Lau group scheme},
author = {Vladimir Drinfeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06194},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Minor changes (mostly in Appendix D)