Achinger–Zdanowicz conjecture on Witt-vector liftings of Frobenius-split varieties

Let XX be a smooth projective variety defined over an algebraically closed field kk of characteristic p>0p>0. Assume that XX is globally Frobenius-split and has trivial canonical class.

Achinger–Zdanowicz conjecture. There is a flat deformation of XX over the Witt vectors W(k)W(k), not only over W2(k)W_2(k).

This conjecture concerns extending liftings of varieties with strong Frobenius-splitting properties from truncated Witt vectors to the full Witt vectors. It is known for surfaces and for finite étale quotients of Abelian varieties, while the general case remains open.

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Ryo Ishizuka and Kazuma Shimomoto, “Quasi-canonical lifting of projective varieties in positive characteristic”, arXiv:2506.01345 (2025).

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