Breuil-Kisin modules and integral $p$-adic Hodge theory

Abstract

We construct a category of Breuil-Kisin $G_K$-modules to classify integral semi-stable Galois representations. Our theory uses Breuil-Kisin modules and Breuil-Kisin-Fargues modules with Galois actions, and can be regarded as the algebraic avatar of the integral $p$-adic cohomology theories of Bhatt-Morrow-Scholze and Bhatt-Scholze. As a key ingredient, we classify Galois representations that are of finite $E(u)$-height.