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Degenerations and limit Frobenius structures in rigid cohomology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Alan G. B. Lauder*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24–29 St Giles Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom (email: [email protected])

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We introduce a ‘limiting Frobenius structure’ attached to any degeneration of projective varieties over a finite field of characteristic p which satisfies a p-adic lifting assumption. Our limiting Frobenius structure is shown to be effectively computable in an appropriate sense for a degeneration of projective hypersurfaces. We conjecture that the limiting Frobenius structure relates to the rigid cohomology of a semistable limit of the degeneration through an analogue of the Clemens–Schmidt exact sequence. Our construction is illustrated, and conjecture supported, by a selection of explicit examples.

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Research Article
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Copyright © London Mathematical Society 2011

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