Revisiting the de Rham-Witt complex

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Abstract: The goal of this paper is to offer a new construction of the de Rham-Witt complex of smooth varieties over perfect fields of characteristic p>0. We introduce a category of cochain complexes equipped with an endomorphism F of underlying graded abelian groups satisfying dF=pFd, whose homological algebra we study in detail. To any such object satisfying an abstract analog of the Cartier isomorphism, an elementary homological process associates a generalization of the de Rham-Witt construction. Abstractly, the homological algebra can be viewed as a calculation of the fixed points of the Berthelot-Ogus operator Letap on the p-complete derived category. We give various applications of this approach, including a simplification of the crystalline comparison for the AOmega-cohomology theory introduced in [BMS18].












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