Bhatt–Lurie’s obstruction-class conjecture for Frobenius liftings and the Hodge–Tate gerbe

Let XX be a smooth scheme over a field of characteristic pp. Write XfpqcX_{\mathrm{fpqc}} for its fpqc site, let TX/kT_{X/k} be its tangent bundle, and let TX/kT_{X/k}^{\sharp} be the fpqc-group banding the Hodge–Tate gerbe XHTX^{\mathrm{HT}}. Let oF,fpqcH2(Xfpqc,αpTX)o_{F,\mathrm{fpqc}}\in \mathrm{H}^2(X_{\mathrm{fpqc}},\alpha_p\otimes T_X) be the obstruction to the existence of a Frobenius lifting, and let oHTH2(Xfpqc,TX/k)o_{\mathrm{HT}}\in \mathrm{H}^2(X_{\mathrm{fpqc}},T^{\sharp}_{X/k}) be the cohomology class of XHTX^{\mathrm{HT}}. Bhatt–Lurie’s conjecture. The image of oHTo_{\mathrm{HT}} in H2(Xfpqc,αpTX)\mathrm{H}^2(X_{\mathrm{fpqc}},\alpha_p\otimes T_X), under the map induced by Gaαp\mathbb{G}_a^{\sharp}\to\alpha_p tensoring with TX/kT_{X/k}, is equal to oF,fpqco_{F,\mathrm{fpqc}}. This identifies the obstruction represented by the Hodge–Tate gerbe with the obstruction to lifting Frobenius, relating trivializations of the gerbe to Frobenius liftings; the paper presents it as a conjecture of Bhatt and Lurie.

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Jiahong Yu, “A Conjecture of Bhatt–Lurie and weakly p-nilpotent Hodge–Tate stacks”, arXiv:2410.06630 (2025).

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