Formal and rigid geometry: an intuitive introduction and some applications

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Authors Johannes Nicaise

Publication date 26 February 2009

Published in L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701532

zbMATH Keywords

arc spacesBerkovich spacesformal geometryMilnor fibrationrigid geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to algebraic geometry (14-01) Singularities in algebraic geometry (14B05) Rigid analytic geometry (14G22) Milnor fibration; relations with knot theory (32S55)

Abstract: We give an informal introduction to formal and rigid geometry over complete discrete valuation rings, and we discuss some applications in algebraic and arithmetic geometry and singularity theory, with special emphasis on recent applications to the Milnor fibration and the motivic zeta function by J. Sebag and the author.

Review text

The article provides a very nice introduction to formal and rigid geometry. It contains enlightening remarks about the way one should think of the objects as well as numerous examples and references. At the end, the author gives some examples of applications of the theory. Let's mention that, due to the introductory nature of the paper, no proof is given. The author begins with formal schemes. He gives the definitions and speaks about coherent modules, completion of schemes (including a few words about the proper case and Grothendieck's Existence Theorem) and formal blow-ups. Then he turns to rigid geometry, giving all the definitions and telling how to get a rigid variety by analytifying a scheme. Next, he explains how Raynaud's theory enables to define the generic fibre of a formal scheme as a rigid space. Finally, he says a few words about Berkovich spaces, which are close to rigid spaces but carry a true topology. Concerning the applications, the author first discusses arc spaces and shows that they naturally appear as generic fibers of formal schemes. Next, he explains how to define a Milnor fiber of a fibration over the line over any field (algebraically closed of characteristic 0) as a rigid space. Other applications (lifting problems, nearby cycles for formal schemes, semi-stable reduction for curves, Abhyankar's conjecture) are also mentionned, though more briefly.

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