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Piotr Achinger

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arXiv2026

Tame fundamental groups of rigid spaces

We introduce the tame \'etale fundamental group $\pi_1^t(X/K)$ of a rigid space X over a non-archimedean field K. We show that if X is qcqs and K has topologically finitely generated tame Galois group (e.g. algebraically closed or a local field), then $\pi_1^t(X/K)$ is topologically finitely generated. If X is moreover the rigid generic fibre of a strictly semistable formal scheme such that the smooth locus of its special fibre admits a projective snc compactification, then $\pi_1^t(X/K)$ is topologically finitely presented. The proofs rely on techniques of logarithmic geometry (extended beyond its usual scope of finitely generated monoids), in particular on an analogous finiteness statement for the tame log \'etale fundamental group, and on the 'vertical compactification' of a map of adic spaces.

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arXiv2025

Compactly supported $p$-adic pro-\'etale cohomology of analytic varieties

We study properties of compactly supported $p$-adic pro-\'etale cohomology of smooth partially proper rigid analytic varieties. In particular, we prove a comparison theorem, in a stable range, with compactly supported syntomic cohomology, which is built from compactly supported Hyodo-Kato and ${\mathcal B}^+_{\rm dr}$-cohomologies. We derive from that a (limited version of a) fundamental diagram.

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arXiv2024

Logarithmic geometry beyond fs

We develop the foundations of logarithmic structures beyond the standard finiteness conditions. The motivation is the study of semistable models over general valuation rings. The key new notion is that of a morphism of finite presentation up to saturation (sfp), which is one that is qcqs and which is locally isomorphic to the saturated base change of a finitely presented morphism between fs log schemes. As in the case of schemes, sfp maps can (locally on the base) be approximated by maps between fs log schemes of finite type over $\mathbb{Z}$. Based on sfp maps, we define smooth, \'etale, and Kummer \'etale maps. Importantly, the maps of schemes underlying such maps are no longer of finite type in general, though surprisingly they are if the base is the spectrum of a valuation ring with algebraically closed field of fractions. These foundations allow us to extend beyond the fs case the theory of the Kummer \'etale site and of the Kummer \'etale fundamental group.

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arXiv2024

Beauville-Laszlo gluing of algebraic spaces

For a complete discrete valuation field $K$, we show that one may always glue a separated formal algebraic space $\mathfrak{X}$ over $\mathcal{O}_K$ to a separated algebraic space $U$ over $K$ along an open immersion of rigid spaces $j\colon \mathfrak{X}^{\rm rig}\to U^{\rm an}$, producing a separated algebraic space $X$ over $\mathcal{O}_K$. This process gives rise to an equivalence between such `gluing triples' $(U,\mathfrak{X},j)$ and separated algebraic spaces $X$ over $\mathcal{O}_K$, which one might interpret as a version of the Beauville--Laszlo theorem for algebraic spaces rather than coherent sheaves. Moreover, an analogous equivalence exists over any excellent base. Examples due to Matsumoto imply that the result of such a gluing might be a genuine algebraic space (not a scheme) even if $U$ and the special fiber of $\mathfrak{X}$ are projective. The proof is a combination of Nagata compactification theorem for algebraic spaces and of Artin's contraction theorem. We give multiple examples and applications of this idea.

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arXiv2023

Topological rigidity of maps in positive characteristic and anabelian geometry

We study pairs of non-constant maps between two integral schemes of finite type over two (possibly different) fields of positive characteristic. When the target is quasi-affine, Tamagawa showed that the two maps are equal up to a power of Frobenius if and only if they induce the same homomorphism on their \'etale fundamental groups. We extend Tamagawa's result by adding a purely topological criterion for maps to agree up to a power of Frobenius.

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arXiv2023

Regular logarithmic connections

We introduce the notion of a regular integrable connection on a smooth log scheme over $\mathbf{C}$ and construct an equivalence between the category of such connections and the category of integrable connections on its analytification, compatible with de Rham cohomology. This extends the work of Deligne (when the log structure is trivial), and combined with the work of Ogus yields a topological description of the category of regular connections in terms of certain constructible sheaves on the Kato--Nakayama space. The key ingredients are the notion of a canonical extension in this context and the existence of good compactifications of log schemes obtained recently by W{\l}odarczyk.

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arXiv2022

Geometric arcs and fundamental groups of rigid spaces

We develop the notion of a geometric covering of a rigid space X, which yields a much larger class of covering spaces than that studied previously by de Jong. Geometric coverings of X are closed under disjoint unions and are étale local on X. If X is connected, its geometric coverings form a tame infinite Galois category, and hence are classified by a topological group. The definition is based on the property of lifting of "geometric arcs," making it similar to geometric coverings of schemes studied by Bhatt and Scholze as well as semicoverings of topological spaces introduced by Brazas.

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arXiv2022

Variants of the de Jong fundamental group

For a rigid space $X$, we answer two questions of de Jong about the category $\mathbf{Cov}^\mathrm{adm}_X$ of coverings which are locally in the admissible topology on $X$ the disjoint union of finite etale coverings: we show that this class is different from the one used by de Jong, but still gives a tame infinite Galois category. In addition, we prove that the objects of $\mathbf{Cov}^\mathrm{et}_X$ (with the analogous definition) correspond precisely to locally constant sheaves for the pro-etale topology defined by Scholze.

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arXiv2021

Specialization for the pro-étale fundamental group

For a formal scheme $\mathfrak{X}$ of finite type over a complete rank one valuation ring, we construct a specialization morphism \[ π^{\rm dJ}_1(\mathfrak{X}_η) \to π^{\rm proet}_1(\mathfrak{X}_k) \] from the de Jong fundamental group of the rigid generic fiber to the Bhatt-Scholze pro-étale fundamental group of the special fiber. The construction relies on an interplay between admissible blowups of $\mathfrak{X}$ and normalizations of the irreducible components of $\mathfrak{X}_k$, and employs the Berthelot tubes of these irreducible components in an essential way. Using related techniques, we show that under certain smoothness and semistability assumptions, covering spaces in the sense of de Jong of a smooth rigid space which are tame satisfy étale descent.

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arXiv2021

Global Frobenius Liftability I

We formulate a conjecture characterizing smooth projective varieties in positive characteristic whose Frobenius morphism can be lifted modulo $p^2$ - we expect that such varieties, after a finite étale cover, admit a toric fibration over an ordinary abelian variety. We prove that this assertion implies a conjecture of Occhetta and Wiśniewski, which states that in characteristic zero a smooth image of a projective toric variety is a toric variety. To this end we analyse the behaviour of toric varieties in families showing some generization and specialization results. Furthermore, we prove a positive characteristic analogue of Winkelmann's theorem on varieties with trivial logarithmic tangent bundle (generalising a result of Mehta-Srinivas), and thus obtaining an important special case of our conjecture. Finally, using deformations of rational curves we verify our conjecture for homogeneous spaces, solving a problem posed by Buch-Thomsen-Lauritzen-Mehta.

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arXiv2021

Global Frobenius Liftability II: Surfaces and Fano Threefolds

In this article, a sequel to "Global Frobenius Liftability I" (math:1708:03777v2), we continue the development of a comprehensive theory of Frobenius liftings modulo $p^2$. We study compatibility of divisors and closed subschemes with Frobenius liftings, Frobenius liftings of blow-ups, descent under quotients by some group actions, stability under base change, and the properties of associated F-splittings. Consequently, we characterise Frobenius liftable surfaces and Fano threefolds, confirming the conjecture stated in our previous paper.

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arXiv2020

Hodge symmetry for rigid varieties via log hard Lefschetz

Motivated by a question of Hansen and Li, we show that a smooth and proper rigid analytic space $X$ with projective reduction satisfies Hodge symmetry in the following situations: (1) the base non-archimedean field $K$ is of residue characteristic zero, (2) $K$ is $p$-adic and $X$ has good ordinary reduction, (3) $K$ is $p$-adic and $X$ has "combinatorial reduction."' We also reprove a version of their result, Hodge symmetry for $H^1$, without the use of moduli spaces of semistable sheaves. All of this relies on cases of Kato's log hard Lefschetz conjecture, which we prove for $H^1$ and for log schemes of "combinatorial type."

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arXiv2020

Some refinements of the Deligne-Illusie theorem

We extend the results of Deligne and Illusie on liftings modulo $p^2$ and decompositions of the de Rham complex in several ways. We show that for a smooth scheme $X$ over a perfect field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$, the truncations of the de Rham complex in $\max(p-1, 2)$ consecutive degrees can be reconstructed as objects of the derived category in terms of its truncation in degrees at most one (or, equivalently, in terms the obstruction class to lifting modulo $p^2$). Consequently, these truncations are decomposable if $X$ admits a lifting to $W_2(k)$, in which case the first nonzero differential in the conjugate spectral sequence appears no earlier than on page $\max(p,3)$ (these corollaries have been recently strengthened by Drinfeld, Bhatt-Lurie, and Li-Mondal). Without assuming the existence of a lifting, we describe the gerbes of splittings of two-term truncations and the differentials on the second page of the conjugate spectral sequence, answering a question of Katz. The main technical result used in the case $p>2$ belongs purely to homological algebra. It concerns certain commutative differential graded algebras whose cohomology algebra is the exterior algebra, dubbed by us "abstract Koszul complexes", of which the de Rham complex in characteristic $p$ is an example. In the appendix, we use the aforementioned stronger decomposition result to prove that Kodaira-Akizuki-Nakano vanishing and Hodge-de Rham degeneration both hold for $F$-split $(p+1)$-folds.

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arXiv2019

Betti realization of varieties defined by formal Laurent series

We give two constructions of functorial topological realizations for schemes of finite type over the field $\mathbb{C}(\!(t)\!)$ of formal Laurent series with complex coefficients, with values in the homotopy category of spaces over the circle. The problem of constructing such a realization was stated by D. Treumann, motivated by certain questions in mirror symmetry. The first construction uses spreading out and the usual Betti realization over $\mathbb{C}$. The second uses generalized semistable models and log Betti realization defined by Kato and Nakayama, and applies to smooth rigid analytic spaces as well. We provide comparison theorems between the two constructions and relate them to the étale homotopy type and de Rham cohomology. As an illustration of the second construction, we treat two examples, the Tate curve and the non-archimedean Hopf surface.

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arXiv2019

Monodromy and Log Geometry

A now classical construction due to Kato and Nakayama attaches a topological space (the "Betti realization") to a log scheme over $\mathbf{C}$. We show that in the case of a log smooth degeneration over the standard log disc, this construction allows one to recover the topology of the germ of the family from the log special fiber alone. We go on to give combinatorial formulas for the monodromy and the $d^2$ differentials acting on the nearby cycle complex in terms of the log structures. We also provide variants of these results for the Kummer etale topology. In the case of curves, these data are essentially equivalent to those encoded by the dual graph of a semistable degeneration, including the monodromy pairing and the Picard-Lefschetz formula.

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arXiv2019

Serre-Tate theory for Calabi-Yau varieties

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 its local moduli space 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 $p^2$ of varieties with trivial canonical class which are ordinary in the weak sense that the Frobenius acts bijectively on the top cohomology of the structure sheaf. Consequently, we obtain a Frobenius lifting on the moduli space of such varieties. The quite explicit construction uses Frobenius splittings and a relative version of Witt vectors of length two. If the variety has a smooth deformation space and bijective first higher Hasse-Witt operation, the Frobenius lifting gives rise to canonical coordinates. One of the key features of our liftings is that the crystalline Frobenius preserves the Hodge filtration. We also extend Nygaard's approach from K3 surfaces to higher dimensions, and show that no nontrivial families of such varieties exist over simply connected bases with no global one-forms.

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arXiv2017

Wild ramification and K(pi, 1) spaces

We prove that every connected affine scheme of positive characteristic is a K(pi, 1) space for the etale topology. The main ingredient is the special case of the affine space over a field k. This is dealt with by induction on n, using a key "Bertini-type"' statement regarding the wild ramification of l-adic local systems on affine spaces, which might be of independent interest. Its proof uses in an essential way recent advances in higher ramification theory due to T. Saito. We also give rigid analytic and mixed characteristic versions of the main result.

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