Crystalline representations and Wach modules in the relative case II

Abstract

We study relative Wach modules generalising our previous works on this subject. Our main result shows a categorical equivalence between relative Wach modules and lattices inside relative crystalline representations. Using this result, we deduce a purity statement for relative crystalline representations and provide a criteria for checking crystallinity of relative $p$-adic representations. Furthermore, we interpret relative Wach modules as modules with $q$-connections, and show that for a crystalline representation, its associated Wach module together with the Nygaard filtration is the canonical $q$-deformation (after inverting $p$) of the filtered $(φ,\partial)$-module associated to the representation.