Potentially good reduction of Barsotti-Tate groups

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Abstract: Let R be a complete discrete valuation ring of mixed characteristic (0, p) with perfect residue field, K the fraction field of R. Suppose G is a Barsotti-Tate group (p-divisible group) defined over K which acquires good reduction over a finite extension K' of K. We prove that there exists a constant c which depends on the absolute ramification index e(K'/Q_p) and the height of G such that G has good reduction over K if and only if G[p^c] can be extended to a finite flat group scheme over R. For abelian varieties with potentially good reduction, this result generalizes Grothendieck's p-adic Neron-Ogg-Shafarevich criterion to finite level. We use methods that can be generalized to study semi-stable p-adic Galois representations with general Hodge-Tate weights, and in particular leads to a proof of a conjecture of Fontaine and gives a constant c as above that is independent of the height of G.


Let \(R\) be a complete discrete valuation ring of mixed characteristic \((0,p)\), \(K\) its fraction field, \(m\) the maximal ideal of \(R\) and \(k = R/m\) perfect. Using \textit{W. Messing}'s deformation theory [The Crystals Associated to Barsotti-Tate Groups: With Applications to Abelian Varieties. Lect. Notes Math. 264 (1972; Zbl 0243.14013)] the author proves that if \(G\) is a Barsotti-Tate group which acquires good reduction over a finite extension \(K'\) of \(K\) then there exists a constant \(c \geq 2\) dependent on \(e= e(K'/\mathbb{Q}_p)\), the absolute ramification index, and the height of \(G\) such that \(G\) has a good reduction over \(R\) if and only if \(G[p^c]\) can be extended to a finite flat group scheme over \(R\). As a consequence of this he shows that if \(A\) is an abelian variety over \(K\) with potentially good reduction then there exists a constant \(c' \geq 2\) dependent on \(e(K'/\mathbb{Q}_p)\) and \(\dim A\) such that \(A\) has good reduction over \(K\) if and only if \(A[p^{c'}]\) can be extended to a finite flat group scheme over \(R\). Results similar to these, although with slightly different hypotheses and complete different methods of proof have been obtained by \textit{V. M. Bondarko} [St. Petersburg Math. J. 18 (5), 737--755 (2007; Zbl 1141.14027)].











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