Abstract Jarod Alper

Jarod Alper will speak on  Coherent completeness in positive characteristic

Grothendieck’s Existence Theorem asserts that a coherent sheaf on a scheme proper over a complete local noetherian ring is the same as a compatible system of coherent sheaves on the thickenings of its central fiber. This is a fundamental result with important applications to moduli theory. We will discuss generalizations of this result to algebraic stacks beginning with a review of the characteristic 0 situation where a satisfactory answer is known: any quotient stack [Spec A/G] whose invariant ring A^G is a complete local k-algebra is coherently complete along its unique closed point. We will report on partial progress in joint work with Hall and Lim on extending this result to positive characteristic.