Frobenius rigidity in $\mathbb A^1$-homotopy theory

Abstract

We study the homotopy fixed points under the Frobenius endomorphism on the stable $\mathbb A^1$-homotopy category of schemes in characteristic $p>0$ and prove a rigidity result for cellular objects in these categories after inverting $p$. As a consequence we determine the analogous fixed points on the $K$-theory of algebraically closed fields in positive characteristic. We also prove a rigidity result for the homotopy fixed points of the partial Frobenius pullback on motivic cohomology groups in weights at most $1$.