Local Logarithmic Cartier Transform

Abstract

This article is the first of three articles whose goal is to generalize the Cartier transform of Ogus and Vologodsky to the logarithmic setting. In this article, we generalize a local version, due to Shiho, of the Cartier transform to log smooth schemes. More precisely, let $k$ be a perfect field of positive characteristic and equip $\operatorname{Spec}k$ with the trivial logarithmic structure. For a log smooth morphism of logarithmic schemes $X \rightarrow S,$ where $S$ is log flat and locally of finite type over $\operatorname{Spec}k,$ we obtain, under the assumption that the exact relative Frobenius lifts over the Witt vectors of $k$ to a morphism between log smooth schemes over $S,$ a fully faithful functor from the category of quasi-coherent modules on the base change $X'=X\times_{S,F_S}S$ of $X$ by the Frobenius $F_S$ of $S,$ equipped with a quasi-nilpotent Higgs field, to the category of quasi-coherent modules on $X$ equipped with a quasi-nilpotent integrable connection. For this, we prove a log flat descent theorem for morphisms, based on previous work by Kato.