Higher displays arising from filtered de Rham-Witt complexes

Oliver Gregory, Andreas Langer

Published 2017-11-27Version 1

For a smooth projective scheme $X$ over a ring $R$ on which $p$ is nilpotent that meets some general assumptions we prove that the crystalline cohomology is equipped with the structure of a higher display which is a relative version of Fontaine's strongly divisible lattices. Frobenius-divisibilty is induced by the Nygaard filtration on the relative de Rham-Witt complex. For a nilpotent PD-thickening $S/R$ we also consider the associated relative display and can describe it explicitly by a relative version of the Nygaard filtration on the de Rham-Witt complex associated to a lifting of $X$ over $S$. We prove that there is a crystal of relative displays if moreover the mod $p$ reduction of $X$ has a smooth and versal deformation space.