Quasi-canonical lifting of projective varieties in positive characteristic

Abstract

The main aim of this article is to give new classes of smooth projective varieties over characteristic $p>0$ that admit flat liftings over the Witt vectors together with additional data (logarithmic structure and the Frobenius morphism) by showing a descending property of such Frobenius liftability. We establish a refined form of the classical result due to Mehta-Srinivas on the existence of canonical liftings. For this purpose, we also establish a result on the algebraization of certain $p$-adic formal schemes.