Strongly liftable schemes and the Kawamata-Viehweg vanishing in positive characteristic (Q2275716)

A smooth scheme \(X\) over a field \(k\) of positive characteristic is said to be strongly liftable if \(X\) and all prime divisors of \(X\) can be lifted simultaneously to \(W_2(k)\), the ring of Witt vectors of length two of \(k\). The author studies properties of strongly liftable schemes and produces many examples: \(\mathbb A_k^n\), \(\mathbb P_k^n\), smooth projective curves, smooth complete intersections in \(\mathbb P_k^n\) having Picard number \(1\), smooth projective surfaces of the type \(\mathbb P_C(\mathcal E)\), where \(\mathcal E\) is a decomposable rank-2 vector bundle on a smooth projective curve. As an application, he proves that the Kawamata--Viehweg vanishing theorem in positive characteristic holds on a normal projective surface which is birational to a strongly liftable surface. This generalizes a previous result in [Math. Z. 266, No. 3, 561--570 (2010; Zbl 1235.14021)].