The conjugate uniformization via 1-motives

Abstract

We use the $p$-divisible group attached to a 1-motive to generalize the conjugate $p$-adic uniformization of Iovita--Morrow--Zaharescu to arbitrary $p$-adic formal semi-abelian schemes or $p$-divisible groups over the ring of integers in a $p$-adic field. This mirrors a mixed Hodge theory construction of the inverse uniformization map for complex semi-abelian varieties. We also highlight the geometric structure of the target of the conjugate uniformization map, which is an \'{e}tale cover of a negative Banach--Colmez space in the sense of Fargues--Scholze.