In this article we prove a semistable version of the variational Tate conjecture for divisors in crystalline cohomology, showing that for k a perfect field of characteristic p, a rational (logarithmic) line bundle on the special fibre of a semistable scheme over k t lifts to the total space if and only if its first Chern class does.The proof is elementary, using standard properties of the logarithmic de Rham-Witt complex. As a corollary, we deduce similar algebraicity lifting results for cohomology classes on varieties over global function fields. (1, 1) Morrow's proof of the local statement uses some fairly heavy machinery from motivic homotopy theory, in particular a 'continuity' result for topological cyclic homology. In this article we provide a new proof of the local crystalline variational Tate conjecture for divisors, at least over the base S = Spec (k t ), which only uses some fairly basic properties of the de Rham-Witt complex, and is close in spirit to the approach taken in [Mor15]. The point of giving this proof is that it adapts essentially verbatim to the case of semistable reduction, once the corresponding basic properties of the logarithmic de Rham-Witt complex are in place.
Cycle classes and LefschetzSo let X be a semistable, projective scheme over k t , with special fibre X 0 and generic fibre X. Write K = W (k)[1/p] and let R denote the Robba ring over K. Then there is an isomorphism