Mathematics – Algebraic Geometry
Scientific paper
2011-09-02
Mathematics
Algebraic Geometry
22 pages, comments welcome!
Scientific paper
This paper introduces the notion of a derived splinter. Roughly speaking, a scheme is a derived splinter if it splits off from the coherent cohomology of any proper cover. Over a field of characteristic 0, this condition characterises rational singularities by a result of Kov\'acs. Our main theorem asserts that over a field of characteristic p, derived splinters are the same as (underived) splinters, i.e., as schemes that split off from any finite cover. Using this result, we answer some questions of Karen Smith concerning extending Serre/Kodaira type vanishing results beyond the class of ample line bundles in positive characteristic; these are purely projective geometric statements independent of singularity considerations. In fact, we can prove "up to finite cover" analogues in characteristic p of many vanishing theorems one knows in characteristic 0. All these results fit naturally in the study of F-singularities, and are motivated by a desire to understand the direct summand conjecture
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