The Griffiths bundle is generated by groups

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Abstract: First the Griffiths line bundle of a mathbfQ-VHS mathscrV is generalized to a Griffiths character mgrif(mathbfG,mu,r) associated to any triple (mathbfG,mu,r), where mathbfG is a connected reductive group over an arbitrary field F, muinX∗(mathbfG) is a cocharacter (over overlineF) and r:mathbfGoGL(V) is an F-representation; the classical bundle studied by Griffiths is recovered by taking F=mathbfQ, mathbfG the Mumford-Tate group of mathscrV, r:mathbfGoGL(V) the tautological representation afforded by a very general fiber and pulling back along the period map the line bundle associated to mgrif(mathbfG,mu,r). The more general setting also gives rise to the Griffiths bundle in the analogous situation in characteristic p given by a scheme mapping to a stack of mathbfG-Zips. When mathbfG is F-simple, we show that, up to positive multiples, the Griffiths character mgrif(mathbfG,mu,r) (and thus also the Griffiths line bundle) is essentially independent of r with central kernel, and up to some identifications is given explicitly by −mu. As an application, we show that the Griffiths line bundle of a projective mathbfGm−Zipmu-scheme is nef.


Let \(F\) be any field. Consider a connected reductive \(F\)-group \(G\) and a cocharacter \(\mu \in X_*(G)\). To any homomorphism \(r: G_{\overline{F}} \to \mathrm{GL}(V)\) of \(\overline{F}\)-groups with central kernel, \(r \circ \mu\) yields a filtration of \(V\) such that \(r\mu\) acts on \(\mathrm{Fil}^a V / \mathrm{Fil}^{a+1}V\) by \(z^a\). Define the extremal indices so that \[ \mathrm{Fil}^{-(r\mu)_{\mathrm{max}}} V = V, \quad \mathrm{Fil}^{1 - (r\mu)_{\mathrm{min}}} V = \{0\}. \] In this paper, the Griffiths character \(\mathrm{grif}(G, \mu, r) \in X^*(L)\) is defined as the determinant of the Griffiths module \[ \mathrm{Grif}(G, \mu, r) = \sum_{1 - (r\mu)_{\mathrm{max}}}^{-(r\mu)_{\mathrm{min}}} \mathrm{Fil}^a V \] on which \(L = Z_{G_{\overline{F}}}(\mu)\) acts. This construction generalizes the Griffiths line bundle attached to a \(\mathbb{Q}\)-VHS via Deligne's formalism of pairs \((G, X)\). On the other hand, by taking \(F = \mathbb{F}_p\), one can define the line bundle \(\mathrm{grif}(G\mathrm{-Zip}^\mu , r)\) on the moduli stack of \(G\)-Zips \(G\mathrm{-Zip}^\mu\) introduced in [\textit{R. Pink} et al., Doc. Math. 16, 253--300 (2011; Zbl 1230.14070)], thus also on the \(\overline{F}\)-schemes \(X\) endowed with a morphism \(\zeta: X \to G\mathrm{-Zip}^\mu\) by pull-back. The scenario arises naturally in the study of de Rham cohomology in characteristic \(p\), and the \(\zeta\) may be seen as an analogue for the period map considered by Griffiths. Roughly speaking, the main Theorem 3.1 asserts that, assuming \(G^{\mathrm{ad}}\) is \(F\)-simple, \(\mathrm{grif}(G, \mu, r)\) equals \(\mu\) up to a negative, combinatorially defined constant. In particular, the ray generated by \(\mathrm{grif}(G, \mu, r)\) is independent of \(r\). As an application (Corollary 3.7), the author deduces the nefness of the Griffiths line bundle on a proper finite-type \(\overline{\mathbb{F}_p}\)-scheme \(X\) and a morphism \(\zeta: X \to G\mathrm{-Zip}^\mu\), when \(\mathrm{grif}(G, \mu, r)\) is orbitally \(p\)-close in the sense of Section 2.4.4.











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