Welcome! This is the webpage for the student learning seminar on prismatic F-gauges at Northwestern University. The main goal is to learn about the recent development of the stacky approach (a.k.a. geometrization) in p-adic geometry and their applications.

Reference

Bhargav Bhatt’s Princeton notes on Prismatic $F$-gauges (2023)

Other References:

Bhatt-Lurie: Absolute prismatic cohomology (2022)

Bhatt-Lurie: The prismatization of $p$-adic formal schemes (2022)

Drinfeld: Prismatization (2020)

Drinfeld: A $1$-dimensional formal group over the prismatization of $\text{Spf}(\mathbb{Z}_p)$ (2021)

Li-Mondal: On endomorphisms of the de Rham cohomology functor (2021)

Time and Location:

(Winter 2024) Mondays 3pm-4pm in Lunt 103

(Spring 2024) Wednesdays 12pm-1pm in Lunt 102

Tentative Weekly Schedule:

Date Topics Reference Speaker
Week 1 Jan. 22 Introduction to the stacky approach, construction of $X^{dR}$ in char. 0, quasi-ideals Yuanning Zhang
Week 2 Jan. 29 Geometry of filtration, $X^{dR,+}$ and $X^{Hodge}$, Cartier duality between $\mathbb{G}_a^\sharp$ and $\widehat{\mathbb{G}_a}$ (§2.2-2.4) Yuanning Zhang
Week 3 Feb. 5 de Rham cohomology in mixed char., crystalline miracle, Witt vector models for $\mathbb{G}_a^\sharp$ and $\mathbb{G}_a^{dR}$ (§2.5-2.6) Junho Won
Week 4 Feb. 12 $X^{dR,c}$ and the Deligne-Illusie theorem (§2.7) Yuanning Zhang
Week 5 Feb. 19 Crystalline cohomology and Nygaard filtration (§3.1-3.3) Kirill Magidson
Week 6 Feb. 26 Mazur’s theorem of Newton-above-Hodge (§3.4-3.5) Junho Won
Spring break
Week 7 Mar. 27 Syntomification and F-gauges in char. p (§4.1-4.3) Kirill Magidson
Week 8 Apr. 3 Serre duality in syntomic cohomology (§4.4-4.5) Junho Won
Week 9 Apr. 10 Serre duality in syntomic cohomology (cont.) Junho Won
Week 10 Apr. 17 Prismatization in mixed char. and WCart (§5.1 and APC) Yuanning Zhang
Week 11 Apr. 24 Admissible W-modules and filtered prismatization in mixed char. (§5.2-5.5) Yuanning Zhang
Week 12 May 1 Syntomification in mixed char. (§6.1-6.2) Kirill Magidson
Week 13+ • Galois representations and F-gauges (§6.3-6.6)
• B. Bhatt’s Crystals and Chern classes
• A. Petrov’s work on the Deligne-Illusie theorem and the Sen operator
• Haoyang Guo and Shizhang Li’s Frobenius height of prismatic cohomology with coefficients
• V. Vologodsky’s work on Fontaine-Laffaille modules
• V. Drinfeld’s work on Barsotti-Tate groups
• Toby Gee’s work on mod p crystalline Breuil-Kisin modules