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Publications and source records attributed to Akhil Mathew.
V. Drinfeld and E. Lau introduced a ``decompletion'' of the ring of $p$-typical Witt vectors, following earlier work of T. Zink. The goal of this paper is to offer an exposition of this construction, which we call the sheared Witt vectors, on the category of rings $R$ whose reduction is a perfect $\mathbb{F}_p$-algebra.
The mod $p$ Riemann-Hilbert correspondence (in covariant and contravariant forms) relates $\mathbb{F}_p$-\'etale sheaves on the spectrum of an $\mathbb{F}_p$-algebra $R$ and Frobenius modules over $R$. We give an exposition of these correspondences using Breen's vanishing results on the perfect site.
We establish various properties of the p-adic algebraic K-theory of smooth algebras over perfectoid rings living over perfectoid valuation rings. In particular, the p-adic K-theory of such rings is homotopy invariant, and coincides with the p-adic K-theory of the p-adic generic fibre in high degrees. In the case of smooth algebras over perfectoid valuation rings of mixed characteristic the latter isomorphism holds in all degrees and generalises a result of Nizio{\l}.
The primary goal of this paper is to identify syntomic complexes with the $p$-adic \'etale Tate twists of Geisser--Schneider--Sato on regular $p$-torsionfree schemes. Our methods apply naturally to a broader class of schemes that we call "$F$-smooth". The $F$-smoothness of regular schemes leads to new results on the absolute prismatic cohomology of regular schemes.
We show that the algebraic K-theory space of stable infinity-categories is canonically functorial in polynomial functors. As a consequence, we obtain a new proof of B\"okstedt's calculation of $\mathrm{THH}(\mathbb{F}_p)$.
We give an account of the construction of the Bhatt--Morrow--Scholze motivic filtration on topological cyclic homology and related invariants, focusing on the case of equal characteristic $p$ and the connections to crystalline and de Rham--Witt theory.
We prove some $K$-theoretic descent results for finite group actions on stable $\infty$-categories, including the $p$-group case of the Galois descent conjecture of Ausoni-Rognes. We also prove vanishing results in accordance with Ausoni-Rognes's redshift philosophy: in particular, we show that if $R$ is an $\mathbb{E}_\infty$-ring spectrum with $L_{T(n)}R=0$, then $L_{T(n+1)}K(R)=0$. Our key observation is that descent and vanishing are logically interrelated, permitting to establish them simultaneously by induction on the height.
We discuss some general properties of $\mathrm{TR}$ and its $K(1)$-localization. We prove that after $K(1)$-localization, $\mathrm{TR}$ of $H\mathbb{Z}$-algebras is a truncating invariant in the sense of Land--Tamme, and deduce $h$-descent results. We show that for regular rings in mixed characteristic, $\mathrm{TR}$ is asymptotically $K(1)$-local, extending results of Hesselholt--Madsen. As an application of these methods and recent advances in the theory of cyclotomic spectra, we construct an analog of Thomason's spectral sequence relating $K(1)$-local $K$-theory and \'etale cohomology for $K(1)$-local $\mathrm{TR}$.
Using topological cyclic homology, we give a refinement of Beilinson's $p$-adic Goodwillie isomorphism between relative continuous $K$-theory and cyclic homology. As a result, we generalize results of Bloch-Esnault-Kerz and Beilinson on the $p$-adic deformations of $K$-theory classes. Furthermore, we prove structural results for the Bhatt-Morrow-Scholze filtration on $TC$ and identify the graded pieces with the syntomic cohomology of Fontaine-Messing.
We prove two basic structural properties of the algebraic $K$-theory of rings after $K(1)$-localization at an implicit prime $p$. Our first result (also recently obtained by Land--Meier--Tamme by different methods) states that $L_{K(1)} K(R)$ is insensitive to inverting $p$ on $R$; we deduce this from recent advances in prismatic cohomology and $\mathrm{TC}$. Our second result yields a K\"unneth formula in $K(1)$-local $K$-theory for adding $p$-power roots of unity to $R$.
We prove a purity property in telescopically localized algebraic $K$-theory of ring spectra: For $n\geq 1$, the $T(n)$-localization of $K(R)$ only depends on the $T(0)\oplus \dots \oplus T(n)$-localization of $R$. This complements a classical result of Waldhausen in rational $K$-theory. Combining our result with work of Clausen--Mathew--Naumann--Noel, one finds that $L_{T(n)}K(R)$ in fact only depends on the $T(n-1)\oplus T(n)$-localization of $R$, again for $n \geq 1$. As consequences, we deduce several vanishing results for telescopically localized $K$-theory, as well as an equivalence between $K(R)$ and $\mathrm{TC}(\tau_{\geq 0} R)$ after $T(n)$-localization for $n\geq 2$.
We prove a version of faithfully flat descent in rigid analytic geometry, for almost perfect complexes and without finiteness assumptions on the rings involved. This extends results of Drinfeld for vector bundles.
We give counterexamples to the degeneration of the HKR spectral sequence in characteristic $p$, both in the untwisted and twisted settings. We also prove that the de Rham--$\mathrm{HP}$ and crystalline--$\mathrm{TP}$ spectral sequences need not degenerate.
We study the \'etale sheafification of algebraic K-theory, called \'etale K-theory. Our main results show that \'etale K-theory is very close to a noncommutative invariant called Selmer K-theory, which is defined at the level of categories. Consequently, we show that \'etale K-theory has surprisingly well-behaved properties, integrally and without finiteness assumptions. A key theoretical ingredient is the distinction, which we investigate in detail, between sheaves and hypersheaves of spectra on \'etale sites.
A theorem of Lurie and Pridham establishes a correspondence between formal moduli problems and differential graded Lie algebras in characteristic zero, thereby formalising a well-known principle in deformation theory. We introduce a variant of differential graded Lie algebras, called partition Lie algebras, in arbitrary characteristic. We then explicitly compute the homotopy groups of free algebras, which parametrise operations. Finally, we prove generalisations of the Lurie-Pridham correspondence classifying formal moduli problems via partition Lie algebras over an arbitrary field, as well as over a complete local base.
We study a Grothendieck topology on schemes which we call the $\mathrm{arc}$-topology. This topology is a refinement of the $v$-topology (the pro-version of Voevodsky's $h$-topology) where covers are tested via rank $\leq 1$ valuation rings. Functors which are $\mathrm{arc}$-sheaves are forced to satisfy a variety of glueing conditions such as excision in the sense of algebraic $K$-theory. We show that \'etale cohomology is an $\mathrm{arc}$-sheaf and deduce various pullback squares in \'etale cohomology. Using $\mathrm{arc}$-descent, we reprove the Gabber-Huber affine analog of proper base change (in a large class of examples), as well as the Fujiwara-Gabber base change theorem on the \'etale cohomology of the complement of a henselian pair. As a final application we prove a rigid analytic version of the Artin-Grothendieck vanishing theorem from SGA4, extending results of Hansen.
The goal of this paper is to offer a new construction of the de Rham-Witt complex of smooth varieties over perfect fields of characteristic $p>0$. We introduce a category of cochain complexes equipped with an endomorphism $F$ of underlying graded abelian groups satisfying $dF = pFd$, whose homological algebra we study in detail. To any such object satisfying an abstract analog of the Cartier isomorphism, an elementary homological process associates a generalization of the de Rham-Witt construction. Abstractly, the homological algebra can be viewed as a calculation of the fixed points of the Berthelot-Ogus operator $L \eta_p$ on the $p$-complete derived category. We give various applications of this approach, including a simplification of the crystalline comparison for the $A \Omega$-cohomology theory introduced in [BMS18].
Given a henselian pair $(R, I)$ of commutative rings, we show that the relative $K$-theory and relative topological cyclic homology with finite coefficients are identified via the cyclotomic trace $K \to \mathrm{TC}$. This yields a generalization of the classical Gabber-Gillet-Thomason-Suslin rigidity theorem (for mod $n$ coefficients, with $n$ invertible in $R$) and McCarthy's theorem on relative $K$-theory (when $I$ is nilpotent). We deduce that the cyclotomic trace is an equivalence in large degrees between $p$-adic $K$-theory and topological cyclic homology for a large class of $p$-adic rings. In addition, we show that $K$-theory with finite coefficients satisfies continuity for complete noetherian rings which are $F$-finite modulo $p$. Our main new ingredient is a basic finiteness property of $\mathrm{TC}$ with finite coefficients.