Geometry Seminar

 

University of Tor Vergata, Department of Mathematics

23^rd  of April 2024, 14:30-16:00, room “Dal Passo”

 

 

 

 

 

Deformations and lifts of Calabi-Yau varieties in characteristic p

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lukas Branter
University of Oxford

 

 

Homotopy theory allows us to study formal moduli problems via their tangent Lie algebras. We apply this general paradigm to Calabi-Yau varieties Z in characteristic p. First, we show that if Z has torsion-free crystalline cohomology and degenerating Hodge-de Rham spectral sequence (and for p=2 a lift to W/4), then its mixed characteristic deformations are unobstructed. This generalises the BTT theorem from characteristic 0 to characteristic p. If Z is ordinary, we show that it moreover admits a canonical (and algebraisable) lift to characteristic zero, thereby extending Serre-Tate theory from abelian varieties to Calabi-Yau varieties. This is joint work with Taelman, and generalises results of Achinger-Zdanowicz, Bogomolov-Tian-Todorov, Deligne-Nygaard, Ekedahl–Shepherd-Barron, Iacono-Manetti, Schröer, Serre-Tate, and Ward.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This talk is part of the activity of the MIUR Excellence Department Projects MathMod@TOV, and the PRIN 2022 Moduli Spaces and Birational Geometry