On linear $\alpha_p$-quotients

Abstract

We study linear $\alpha_p$-actions on affine spaces and the associated quotient singularities, using explicit stacky resolutions. We describe when the quotient singularities are log canonical, canonical or terminal, and we compute their stringy motivic invariants. The second author and Fabio Tonini conjectured that these invariants coincide with those of linear $\mathbb{Z}/p$-quotients: our approach reduces this conjecture to an equality of explicit multi-sets, which we check for a large number of primes using a computer software. A general proof of the equality of multi-sets is given in the appendix written by Linus R\"osler.