Traverso's isogeny cutoff conjecture for p-divisible groups

Let kk be an algebraically closed field of characteristic p>0p>0, let HH be a pp-divisible group over kk of codimension cc and dimension dd, and let bHb_H be the smallest positive integer such that the isogeny class of HH is determined by its truncated group H[pbH]H[p^{b_H}]. Traverso's conjecture concerns this isogeny cutoff.

Traverso's isogeny cutoff conjecture. The isogeny cutoff satisfies

bHcdc+d.b_H\leq \left\lceil\frac{cd}{c+d}\right\rceil.

This conjecture gives a uniform bound, depending only on the codimension and dimension, for the amount of truncation needed to determine the isogeny class of a pp-divisible group. The paper's abstract states that the authors prove the sharper formula bc,d=cd/(c+d)b_{c,d}=\left\lceil cd/(c+d)\right\rceil, thereby proving Traverso's isogeny conjecture for pp-divisible groups over kk; the candidate itself is therefore solved.

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Marc-Hubert Nicole and Adrian Vasiu, “Traverso's isogeny conjecture for p-divisible groups”, arXiv:math/0606780 (2007).

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