2006/09/10 by Kiran S. Kedlaya, Kedlaya, Kiran S.
Computer Science · Mathematics · #14F30 #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #FOS: Mathematics #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #Number Theory (math.NT) #Polynomial and algebraic computation
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0609272
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The slope filtration theorem gives a partial analogue of the eigenspace decomposition of a linear transformation, for a Frobenius-semilinear endomorphism of a finite free module over the Robba ring (the ring of germs of rigid analytic functions on an unspecified open annulus of outer radius 1) over a discretely valued field. In this paper, we give a third-generation proof of this theorem, which both introduces some new simplifications (particularly the use of faithfully flat descent, to recover the theorem from a classification theorem of Dieudonne-Manin type) and extends the result to allow an arbitrary action on coefficients (previously the action on coefficients had to itself be a lift of an absolute Frobenius). This extension is relevant to a study of (phi, Gamma)-modules associated to families of p-adic Galois representations, presently being initiated by Berger and Colmez.