Semistable Higgs bundles, periodic Higgs bundles and representations of algebraic fundamental groups

By Guitang Lan, Mao Sheng, K. Zuo. Journal of the European Mathematical Society (Print), 2013

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Let $k $ be the algebraic closure of a finite field of odd characteristic $p$ and $X$ a smooth projective scheme over the Witt ring $W(k)$ which is geometrically connected in characteristic zero. We introduce the notion of Higgs-de Rham flow and prove that the category of periodic Higgs-de Rham flows over $X/W(k)$ is equivalent to the category of Fontaine modules, hence further equivalent to the category of crystalline representations of the etale fundamental group $\pi_1(X_K)$ of the generic fiber of $X$, after Fontaine-Laffaille and Faltings. Moreover, we prove that every semistable Higgs bundle over the special fiber $X_k$ of $X$ of rank $\leq p$ initiates a semistable Higgs-de Rham flow and thus those of rank $\leq p-1$ with trivial Chern classes induce $k$-representations of $\pi_1(X_K)$. A fundamental construction in this paper is the inverse Cartier transform over a truncated Witt ring. In characteristic $p$, it was constructed by Ogus-Vologodsky in the nonabelian Hodge theory in positive characteristic; in the affine local case, our construction is related to the local Ogus-Vologodsky correspondence of Shiho.

Subfields: Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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