Moduli of p-divisible groups

Peter Scholze, Jared Weinstein

Published 2012-11-27, updated 2013-04-13Version 2

We prove several results about p-divisible groups and Rapoport-Zink spaces. Our main goal is to prove that Rapoport-Zink spaces at infinite level are naturally perfectoid spaces, and to give a description of these spaces purely in terms of p-adic Hodge theory. This allows us to formulate and prove duality isomorphisms between basic Rapoport-Zink spaces at infinite level in general. Moreover, we identify the image of the period morphism, reproving results of Faltings. For this, we give a general classification of p-divisible groups over the ring of integers of a complete algebraically closed field in the spirit of Riemann's classification of complex abelian varieties. Another key ingredient is a full faithfulness result for the Dieudonn\'e module functor for p-divisible groups over semiperfect rings (meaning rings on which the Frobenius map is surjective).