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Perturbation of mixed characteristics test ideals

HARVARD-MIT ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY

When: April 7, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Science Center 507
Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
Speaker: Hanlin Cai (Columbia University)

Given a normal integral scheme of finite type over a mixed characteristic complete DVR or a perfect field of characteristic p, one can define the notion of a test ideal. This sheaf is used to characterize a class of mild singularities known as splinter singularities, which are analogous to rational singularities in characteristic 0. In equal characteristics, it is a well-known result that test and multiplier ideals are stable under small perturbations. In this talk, I will explain how to extend this stability result to the mixed characteristic setting and discuss some of its applications. Time permitting, I will also outline the key ideas and tools from p-adic geometry that underlie the proof.This is based on joint work in progress with Bhargav Bhatt and Linquan Ma.