Simply connected projective manifolds in characteristic p>0 have no nontrivial stratified bundles
Hélène Esnault and Vikram Mehta
Number | 39 |
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Author | Hélène Esnault |
Year | 2009 |
We show that simply connected projective manifolds in characteristic p > 0 have no nontrivial stratified bundles. This gives a positive answer to a conjecture by D. Gieseker (1975). The proof uses Hrushovski's theorem on periodic points.