Deformation theory of rigid-analytic spaces (Q928474)

Deformation theory for complex analytic spaces dates back to the work of Kodaira and Spencer and has proved very useful since. The purpose of the article is to adapt several basic results in the setting of rigid analytic geometry. The first part is mainly devoted to the definition of a rigid analytic deformation. It ends with the result that the Grothendieck topology of a rigid analytic space is stable under nilpotent deformations (theorem 1.8). In the second part, the rigid analytic cotangent complex is defined. Let us mention that it has already been done by \textit{O. Gabber} and \textit{L. Ramero} in the setting of Huber spaces [Lect. Notes Math. 1800 (2003; Zbl 1045.13002)]. Using Raynaud's point of view, the author gives a new construction of this complex \textit{via} formal geometry and proves some basic results. They are used in the third part in order to prove some of the properties one expects (theorem 3.1): the obstruction to lifting a morphism lies in some \(\mathrm{Ext}^2\), when the latter vanishes, the set of isomorphism classes of liftings is a torsor under some \(\mathrm{Ext}^1\) and the automorphism group of a lifting is isomorphic to some \(\mathrm{Ext}^0\). In the fourth part, the author uses \textit{M. Schlessinger}'s criterion [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 130, 208--222 (1968; Zbl 0167.49503)] in order to prove that any proper rigid analytic space admits a formal versal deformation. In the fifth part, he raises a conjecture concerning the existence of versal family of deformations, which was inspired by the works of \textit{M. Kuranishi} [Ann. Math. (2) 75, 536--577 (1962; Zbl 0106.15303)] and \textit{H. Grauert} [Invent. Math. 25, 107--142 (1974; Zbl 0286.32015)] in complex analytic geometry, and explains its importance.