Section 60.26 (07N0): Frobenius action on crystalline cohomology

60.26 Frobenius action on crystalline cohomology

In this section we prove that Frobenius pullback induces a quasi-isomorphism on crystalline cohomology after inverting the prime $p$ . But in order to even formulate this we need to work in a special situation.

Situation 60.26.1. In Situation 60.7.5 assume the following

$S = \mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(A)$ for some divided power ring $(A, I, \gamma )$ with $p \in I$ ,
there is given a homomorphism of divided power rings $\sigma : A \to A$ such that $\sigma (x) = x^ p \bmod pA$ for all $x \in A$ .

In Situation 60.26.1 the morphism $\mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(\sigma ) : S \to S$ is a lift of the absolute Frobenius $F_{S_0} : S_0 \to S_0$ and since the diagram

$\xymatrix{ X \ar[d] \ar[r]_{F_ X} & X \ar[d] \\ S_0 \ar[r]^{F_{S_0}} & S_0 }$

is commutative where $F_ X : X \to X$ is the absolute Frobenius morphism of $X$ . Thus we obtain a morphism of crystalline topoi

$(F_ X)_{\text{cris}} : (X/S)_{\text{cris}} \longrightarrow (X/S)_{\text{cris}}$

see Remark 60.9.3. Here is the terminology concerning $F$ -crystals following the notation of Saavedra, see [Saavedra].

Definition 60.26.2. In Situation 60.26.1 an $F$ -crystal on $X/S$ (relative to $\sigma$ ) is a pair $(\mathcal{E}, F_\mathcal {E})$ given by a crystal in finite locally free $\mathcal{O}_{X/S}$ -modules $\mathcal{E}$ together with a map

$F_\mathcal {E} : (F_ X)_{\text{cris}}^*\mathcal{E} \longrightarrow \mathcal{E}$

An $F$ -crystal is called nondegenerate if there exists an integer $i \geq 0$ a map $V : \mathcal{E} \to (F_ X)_{\text{cris}}^*\mathcal{E}$ such that $V \circ F_{\mathcal{E}} = p^ i \text{id}$ .

Remark 60.26.3. Let $(\mathcal{E}, F)$ be an $F$ -crystal as in Definition 60.26.2. In the literature the nondegeneracy condition is often part of the definition of an $F$ -crystal. Moreover, often it is also assumed that $F \circ V = p^ n\text{id}$ . What is needed for the result below is that there exists an integer $j \geq 0$ such that $\mathop{\mathrm{Ker}}(F)$ and $\mathop{\mathrm{Coker}}(F)$ are killed by $p^ j$ . If the rank of $\mathcal{E}$ is bounded (for example if $X$ is quasi-compact), then both of these conditions follow from the nondegeneracy condition as formulated in the definition. Namely, suppose $R$ is a ring, $r \geq 1$ is an integer and $K, L \in \text{Mat}(r \times r, R)$ are matrices with $K L = p^ i 1_{r \times r}$ . Then $\det (K)\det (L) = p^{ri}$ . Let $L'$ be the adjugate matrix of $L$ , i.e., $L' L = L L' = \det (L)$ . Set $K' = p^{ri} K$ and $j = ri + i$ . Then we have $K' L = p^ j 1_{r \times r}$ as $K L = p^ i$ and

$L K' = L K \det (L) \det (M) = L K L L' \det (M) = L p^ i L' \det (M) = p^ j 1_{r \times r}$

It follows that if $V$ is as in Definition 60.26.2 then setting $V' = p^ N V$ where $N > i \cdot \text{rank}(\mathcal{E})$ we get $V' \circ F = p^{N + i}$ and $F \circ V' = p^{N + i}$ .

Theorem 60.26.4. In Situation 60.26.1 let $(\mathcal{E}, F_\mathcal {E})$ be a nondegenerate $F$ -crystal. Assume $A$ is a $p$ -adically complete Noetherian ring and that $X \to S_0$ is proper smooth. Then the canonical map

$F_\mathcal {E} \circ (F_ X)_{\text{cris}}^* : R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X/S), \mathcal{E}) \otimes ^\mathbf {L}_{A, \sigma } A \longrightarrow R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X/S), \mathcal{E})$

becomes an isomorphism after inverting $p$ .

Proof. We first write the arrow as a composition of three arrows. Namely, set

$X^{(1)} = X \times _{S_0, F_{S_0}} S_0$

and denote $F_{X/S_0} : X \to X^{(1)}$ the relative Frobenius morphism. Denote $\mathcal{E}^{(1)}$ the base change of $\mathcal{E}$ by $\mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(\sigma )$ , in other words the pullback of $\mathcal{E}$ to $\text{Cris}(X^{(1)}/S)$ by the morphism of crystalline topoi associated to the commutative diagram

$\xymatrix{ X^{(1)} \ar[r] \ar[d] & X \ar[d] \\ S \ar[r]^{\mathop{\mathrm{Spec}}(\sigma )} & S }$

Then we have the base change map

60.26.4.1

$\begin{equation} \label{crystalline-equation-base-change-sigma} R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X/S), \mathcal{E}) \otimes ^\mathbf {L}_{A, \sigma } A \longrightarrow R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X^{(1)}/S), \mathcal{E}^{(1)}) \end{equation}$

see Remark 60.24.8. Note that the composition of $F_{X/S_0} : X \to X^{(1)}$ with the projection $X^{(1)} \to X$ is the absolute Frobenius morphism $F_ X$ . Hence we see that $F_{X/S_0}^*\mathcal{E}^{(1)} = (F_ X)_{\text{cris}}^*\mathcal{E}$ . Thus pullback by $F_{X/S_0}$ is a map

60.26.4.2

$\begin{equation} \label{crystalline-equation-to-prove} F_{X/S_0}^* : R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X^{(1)}/S), \mathcal{E}^{(1)}) \longrightarrow R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X/S), (F_ X)^*_{\text{cris}}\mathcal{E}) \end{equation}$

Finally we can use $F_\mathcal {E}$ to get a map

60.26.4.3

$\begin{equation} \label{crystalline-equation-F-E} R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X/S), (F_ X)^*_{\text{cris}}\mathcal{E}) \longrightarrow R\Gamma (\text{Cris}(X/S), \mathcal{E}) \end{equation}$

The map of the theorem is the composition of the three maps (60.26.4.1), (60.26.4.2), and (60.26.4.3) above. The first is a quasi-isomorphism modulo all powers of $p$ by Remark 60.24.9. Hence it is a quasi-isomorphism since the complexes involved are perfect in $D(A)$ see Remark 60.24.13. The third map is a quasi-isomorphism after inverting $p$ simply because $F_\mathcal {E}$ has an inverse up to a power of $p$ , see Remark 60.26.3. Finally, the second is an isomorphism after inverting $p$ by Lemma 60.25.6. $\square$

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