Abstract
Classical Serre–Tate theory describes deformations of ordinary abelian varieties. It implies that every such variety has a canonical lift to characteristic zero and equips the base of its universal deformation with a Frobenius lifting and canonical multiplicative coordinates. A variant of this theory has been obtained for ordinary K3 surfaces by Nygaard and Ogus.
In this paper, we construct canonical liftings modulo
We also extend Nygaard’s approach from K3 surfaces to higher dimensions, and show that no non-trivial families of such varieties exist over simply connected bases with no global one-forms.
Funding statement: The first author was supported by NCN SONATA grant number 2017/26/D/ST1/00913. The second author’s work was supported by Zsolt Patakfalvi’s Swiss National Science Foundation Grant No. 200021/169639. This work was partially supported by the grant 346300 for IMPAN from the Simons Foundation and the matching 2015–2019 Polish MNiSW fund.
A Finite height
In [59], Yobuko defines the notion of a quasi-F-splitting, more general than an F-splitting, and proves that a smooth quasi-F-split variety can be lifted modulo
It would be interesting to extend this construction to families and to generalize the Serre–Tate theory discussed in this paper to varieties with trivial canonical class of finite height in the spirit of [43].
A.1 The canonical lifting
Yobuko has defined a quasi-F-splitting of level m on an
We have a short exact sequence
Lemma A.1.1.
Suppose that
Proof.
Suppose that
Corollary A.1.2.
Suppose that
defines a lifting of X over

Proof.
Since σ is surjective, the left square is a pushout. To prove that
equals multiplication by p. Let
Then the image of
This in turn has image
Definition A.1.3.
We call the lifting
Remark A.1.4.
Composing the map
A.2 The sheaf ℱ m 𝒪 X and Witt vectors mod p
Suppose that X is a smooth scheme over a perfect field k of characteristic p. Denote by
is
In this situation, Yobuko defined a natural extension of
and showed that

In particular, if X is F-split, the bottom row is, and hence so is

It follows that quasi-F-splittings are precisely
We shall now elucidate the sheaf
the mod-p reduction of the ring of Witt vectors of length m over
is additive modulo p, and therefore induces an
on

Consequently, ρ is injective if X is reduced. We denote its cokernel by
The formula
implies that the multiplication in
Remark A.2.1.
The existence of ρ can be also seen as follows (cf. [47, Section 1.1]): the kernel
It follows that
Proposition A.2.2.
The following diagram is a pushout square:

Proof.
The commutativity of the diagram follows from the formula
Since the vertical arrows are surjective, it remains to check that the induced map
is an isomorphism. This follows from
Corollary A.2.3.
Suppose that X is a smooth scheme over k. There are natural isomorphisms
fitting inside a commutative diagram

We can therefore rephrase the definition of a quasi-F-splitting as follows.
Definition A.2.4.
Let X be an
B Families with vanishing Kodaira–Spencer
Let k be a perfect field of characteristic
yields an exact sequence on S
The Kodaira–Spencer map of
Theorem B.0.1 (compare [45, Lemma 3.5]).
Suppose

Proof.
The assumptions
by adjunction correspond to maps
which both vanish because the target is zero. Define Y to be the quotient by this 1-foliation. ∎
Remark B.0.2.
As the example
Of course, if
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Bhargav Bhatt, Jędrzej Garnek, Adrian Langer, Daniel Litt, Arthur Ogus, Lenny Taelman, and Jakub Witaszek for helpful discussions. We thank the referees for many helpful comments regarding the manuscript. Part of this work was conducted during the first author’s stay at the MPIM and the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn.
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