Subtle invariants of F-crystals

Abstract: Vasiu proved that the level torsion l_M of an F-crystal M over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p>0 is a non-negative integer that is an effectively computable upper bound of the isomorphism number n_M of M and expected that in fact one always has n_M = l_M. In this paper, we prove that this equality holds.

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