A note on certain Tannakian group schemes
In this note, we prove that the -fundamental group scheme is a birational invariant for smooth projective varieties. We prove that the -fundamental group scheme is naturally a quotient of the Nori fundamental group scheme. For elliptic curves, it turns out that the -fundamental group scheme and the Nori fundamental group scheme coincide. We also consider an extension of the Nori fundamental group scheme in positive characteristic using semi-essentially finite vector bundles, and prove that in...