Evidence for a generalization of Gieseker's conjecture on stratified bundles in positive characteristic

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Authors Lars Kindler

Publication date 13 March 2014

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7634, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/vol-18/38.html

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zbMATH Keywords

fundamental groupregular singularitystratified bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homotopy theory and fundamental groups in algebraic geometry (14F35) Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60)

Abstract: Let X be a smooth, connected, projective variety over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic. In "Flat vector bundles and the fundamental group in non-zero characteristics" (Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (4) 2 (1975)), Gieseker conjectured that every stratified bundle (i.e. every O-coherent D-module) on X is trivial, if and only if the 'etale fundamental group of X is trivial. This was proven by Esnault-Mehta in "Simply connected projective manifolds in characteristic p> 0 have no nontrivial stratified bundles" (Invent. Math. 181 (2010)). Building on the classical situation over the complex numbers, we present and motivate a generalization of Gieseker's conjecture using the notion of regular singular stratified bundles developed in the author's thesis and arXiv:1210.5077. In the main part of this article we establish some important special cases of this generalization; most notably we prove that for not necessarily proper X, the vanishing of the tame fundamental group of X implies that there are no nontrivial regular singular stratified bundles with abelian monodromy.

Review text

In this carefully written paper, the author studies stratified bundles on a smooth connected variety \(X\) over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p>0\). In the case when \(X\) is projective, \textit{H. Esnault} and \textit{V. Mehta} [Invent. Math. 181, No. 3, 449--465 (2010; Zbl 1203.14029)] proved that if \(X\) has trivial étale fundamental group, every stratified bundle on \(X\) is trivial. The paper under review investigates possible extensions to the non-proper case. One of the main results concerns stratified line bundles: the author shows that if \(X\) is only assumed to be smooth and its prime-to-\(p\) abelianized fundamental group is trivial, then all stratified line bundles on \(X\) are trivial. The proof proceeds by investigating the \(p\)-completion of the Picard group of \(X\) via the theory of Albanese varieties. There is also a relative version of this result, assuming the existence of good compactifications. Concerning stratified bundles of higher rank, the author proves that if the tame fundamental group of \(X\) is trivial (actually a bit weaker assumption suffices), every regular singular stratified bundle on \(X\) with abelian monodromy is trivial. Here regular singularity is an analogue of a notion due to \textit{D. Gieseker} [Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Cl. Sci., IV. Ser. 2, 1--31 (1975; Zbl 0322.14009)] worked out in positive characteristic by the author. Due to the assumption on abelian monodromy, the proof proceeds by reduction to the rank 1 case, but the difficult result of Esnault and Mehta mentioned above is also needed during the verification that there are no nontrivial extensions of rank 1 stratified bundles. The paper concludes with further observations concerning regular singular stratified bundles; in particular, it is proven that all regular singular stratified bundles on affine \(n\)-space are trivial.

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