The Greenberg functor revisited

Abstract

The proof, but not the statement, of Proposition 18.2 contained an error which is repaired in this version. See Remark 18.3 in this version. No other changes. We extend Greenberg's original construction to arbitrary (in particular, non-reduced) schemes over (certain types of) local artinian rings. We then establish a number of basic properties of the extended functor and determine, for example, its behavior under Weil restriction. We also discuss a formal analog of the functor.