Deformation rings which are not local complete intersections

MaRDI QIDQ6218053zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Frauke Bleher, Ted Chinburg, Bart de Smit

Publication date 16 March 2010

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galois representations (11F80) Class numbers, class groups, discriminants (11R29) Galois theory (11R32) Modular representations and characters (20C20)

Abstract: We study the inverse problem for the versal deformation rings $R(Gamma,V)$ of finite dimensional representations $V$ of a finite group $Gamma$ over a field $k$ of positive characteristic $p$. This problem is to determine which complete local commutative Noetherian rings with residue field $k$ can arise up to isomorphism as such $R(Gamma,V)$. We show that for all integers $nge1$ and all complete local commutative Noetherian rings $mathcalW$ with residue field $k$, the ring $mathcalW[[t]]/(p^{n}t,t^2)$ arises in this way. This ring is not a local complete intersection if $p^{n}mathcalWeq0$, so we obtain an answer to a question of M. Flach in all characteristics.

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