Semistable Higgs bundles, periodic Higgs bundles and representations of algebraic fundamental groups (Q2327708)

The article under review establishes a \(p\)-adic version of Simpson's ``Higgs versus Betti/de Rham'' equivalence. A ``topological'', or ``Betti/de Rham'', gadget here means a (relative) Fontaine module on a proper smooth \(X\) over Witt vectors of Hodge level \(\leq p-2\). The Higgs side is furnished by a new concept called ``periodic Higgs-de Rham flow''. To define this notion, a lift, mod \(p^n\), of the Cartier transform of \textit{A. Ogus} and \textit{V. Vologodsky} [Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 106, 1--138 (2007; Zbl 1140.14007)] is constructed. The term ``periodic'' essentially accounts for the Frobenius action of the corresponding Fontaine module. The authors also discuss the role of stability in this picture. Semistability of a graded Higgs bundle on the speicial fiber is shown to be equivalent to that the Higgs bundle supports a periodic Higgs-de Rham follow. The mod \(p\) stability of a 1-periodic Higgs object corresponds to the absolute irreducibility of the mod \(p\) representation of a crystalline \(\mathbf{Z}_{p}\)-representation under the equivalence.