The basic geometry of Witt vectors, I: The affine case

Borger, James

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The basic geometry of Witt vectors, I: The affine case

Date

2011

Authors

Borger, James

Publisher

Mathematical Sciences Publishers

Abstract

We give a concrete description of the category of étale algebras over the ring of Witt vectors of a given finite length with entries in an arbitrary ring. We do this not only for the classical p-typical and big Witt vector functors but also for certain a