-adic monodromy of the universal deformation of a HW-cyclic Barsotti-Tate group.
Chevalley’s theorem states that every smooth connected algebraic group over a perfect field is an extension of an abelian variety by a smooth connected affine group. That fails when the base field is not perfect. We define a pseudo-abelian variety over an arbitrary field to be a smooth connected -group in which every smooth connected affine normal -subgroup is trivial. This gives a new point of view on the classification of algebraic groups: every smooth connected group over a field is an extension...
Let be a field of characteristic . Let be a over (i.e., an -truncated Barsotti–Tate group over ). Let be a -scheme and let be a over . Let be the subscheme of which describes the locus where is locally for the fppf topology isomorphic to . If , we show that is pure in , i.e. the immersion is affine. For , we prove purity if satisfies a certain technical property depending only on its -torsion . For , we apply the developed techniques to show that all level ...