The small $p$-adic Simpson correspondence in terms of moduli spaces

Abstract

For any rigid space over a perfectoid extension of $\mathbb Q_p$ that admits a liftable smooth formal model, we construct an isomorphism between the moduli stacks of Hitchin-small Higgs bundles and Hitchin-small v-vector bundles. This constitutes a moduli-theoretic improvement of the small $p$-adic Simpson correspondence of Faltings, Abbes-Gros, Tsuji and Wang. Our construction is based on the Hodge-Tate stack of Bhatt-Lurie. We also prove an analogous correspondence in the arithmetic setting of rigid spaces of good reduction over $p$-adic fields.