Minimal $F$-crystals and isomorphism numbers of isosimple $F$-crystals

Abstract

In this paper we generalize minimal $p$-divisible groups defined by Oort to $F$-crystal over an algebraically closed field of positive characteristic. We prove a structural theorem and give an explicit formula of the Frobenius endomorphism of the isosimple minimal $F$-crystals that are the building blocks of minimal $F$-crystals. We then define an invariant called the minimal height for $F$-crystals using minimal $F$-crystals and give an upper bound of the isomorphism numbers of isosimple $F$-crystals in terms of their ranks, Hodge slopes and Newton slopes.

Final accepted version at Math. Nachr

References in corpus (3)

• Crystalline boundedness principle
• Reconstructing $p$-divisible groups from their truncations of small level
• Subtle Invariants of $F$-crystals