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Vanishing deformation tangent space does not force rigidity of the deformation groupoid
Statement refuted
Statement refuted. Let be a field and let be a flat, locally finitely presented -scheme with . Then the deformation groupoid of is trivial: every deformation of over every local Artin -algebra with residue field is isomorphic to the trivial deformation by a unique isomorphism, and in particular the trivial deformation has no non-identity automorphisms reducing to the identity modulo the maximal ideal.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: a field , the affine line , and the Axiom of Choice.
The presentation has no relations, so its empty Jacobian minor is ; the Jacobian criterion makes smooth over (Relative Jacobian criterion with its presentation hypothesis). Also is free of rank one; hence . (Polynomial differentials are free, Truncation, differentials and the cotangent complex of a smooth morphism)
For a locally free finite-rank one has ; in particular for . (Ext of a locally free cotangent sheaf via sheaf cohomology)
Higher quasi-coherent cohomology of the affine scheme vanishes, so . (Affine acyclicity of quasi-coherent sheaves)
Every deformation of over every local Artin -algebra with residue field is isomorphic to the trivial deformation, because . (Vanishing of the deformation tangent space forces rigidity of deformation classes)
The automorphism group of a deformation lift over a small extension is , and infinitesimal automorphisms of the trivial deformation over are exactly the -algebra automorphisms reducing to the identity. (Obstructions to deformations lie in Ext^2 of the cotangent complex, Deformations of algebras: obstruction in degree two and torsor structure in degree one, Derivation of an algebra, Deformations of schemes and the infinitesimal deformation functor)
Counterexample
The affine line has vanishing deformation tangent space. The affine line is quasi-compact and separated, so it satisfies the geometric hypotheses of [F4]. By [F1], , so [F2] and [F3] give .
A non-identity infinitesimal automorphism. Consider the trivial deformation over the dual numbers and the -algebra endomorphism , . It is a well-defined -algebra map because is a polynomial; its inverse is , since and likewise because . Moreover reduces to the identity modulo but , so is a non-identity automorphism of the trivial deformation reducing to the identity.
All deformation classes are trivial. Since by step 1.1, [F4] gives that for every local Artin -algebra with residue field every deformation of over is isomorphic to the trivial deformation; this confirms the hypothesis and the -part of the refuted statement.
Identification with a derivation and conclusion. By [F5] the infinitesimal automorphism group of the trivial deformation is , which is infinite-dimensional; the automorphism of step 1.2 corresponds to the derivation . Hence the deformation groupoid is not trivial and the trivial deformation is not rigid, although its tangent space vanishes by step 1.1 and all deformation classes are trivial by step 2.1. The correct statement is rigidity of isomorphism classes (Vanishing of the deformation tangent space forces rigidity of deformation classes); rigidity of the groupoid would require the additional vanishing of , which fails here.
Depends on
- Relative Jacobian criterion with its presentation hypothesis
- Vanishing of the deformation tangent space forces rigidity of deformation classes
- Truncation, differentials and the cotangent complex of a smooth morphism
- Ext of a locally free cotangent sheaf via sheaf cohomology
- Polynomial differentials are free
- Affine acyclicity of quasi-coherent sheaves
- Obstructions to deformations lie in Ext^2 of the cotangent complex
- Deformations of algebras: obstruction in degree two and torsor structure in degree one
- Deformations of schemes and the infinitesimal deformation functor
- Derivation of an algebra
- The Axiom of Choice
- AC implies DC implies countable choice
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Sources
- The Stacks Project, The Cotangent Complex, complete chapter (Chapter 92) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Edoardo Sernesi, An overview of classical deformation theory (standard reference, not scraped)