Local structure theorems for smooth maps of formal schemes

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Abstract: We continue our study on infinitesimal lifting properties of maps between locally noetherian formal schemes started in math.AG/0604241. In this paper, we focus on some properties which arise specifically in the formal context. In this vein, we make a detailed study of the relationship between the infinitesimal lifting properties of a morphism of formal schemes and those of the corresponding maps of usual schemes associated to the directed systems that define the corresponding formal schemes. Among our main results, we obtain the characterization of completion morphisms as pseudo-closed immersions that are flat. Also, the local structure of smooth and etale morphisms between locally noetherian formal schemes is described: the former factors locally as a completion morphism followed by a smooth adic morphism and the latter as a completion morphism followed by an etale adic morphism.


In their article ``Infinitesimal Lifting and Jacobi Criterion for Smoothness on Formal Schemes [Commun. Algebra 35 (4), 1341--1367 (2007; Zbl 1124.14006)], the authors adapted the theory of smooth morphisms to the case of noetherian formal schemes based on properties of the completion of the module of Kähler differentials. In particular the property of formal smoothness in terms of the infinitesimal liftings of maps in the category of algebraic schemes was described. It was proved that smooth morphisms of noetherian formal schemes are flat and the associated module of differentials is locally free. In this paper a detailed study of the relationship between the infinitesial lifting properties of a morphism of formal schemes and those of the corresponding maps of usual schemes associated to the directed systems that define the corresponding formal schemes is made. A characterization of completion morphisms as pseudo--closed immersions that are flat is given. The local structure of smooth and étale morphisms between locally noetherian formal schemes is described.











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