The p-adic Cauchy Theorem and Overconvergent Period Sheaves

Abstract

The classical p-adic Cauchy theorem asserts that formal solutions of ordinary p-adic differential equations are convergent. In this article we establish a geometric analogue of this result for arbitrary smooth rigid-analytic varieties. More precisely, we show that the horizontal sections functor defined using the overconvergent de Rham period structure sheaf agrees with Scholze's horizontal sections functor defined using OBdR. Equivalently, every formal solution arising from Scholze's construction is already overconvergent. As an application, we identify Scholze's horizontal sections functor with the de Rham functor for D-cap-modules on vector bundles with flat connection.