ON THE IRREDUCIBLE COMPONENTS OF SOME CRYSTALLINE DEFORMATION RINGS

Abstract

We adapt a technique of Kisin to construct and study crystalline deformation rings of $G_{K}$ for a finite extension $K/\mathbb{Q}_{p}$ . This is done by considering a moduli space of Breuil–Kisin modules, satisfying an additional Galois condition, over the unrestricted deformation ring. For $K$ unramified over $\mathbb{Q}_{p}$ and Hodge–Tate weights in $[0,p]$ , we study the geometry of this space. As a consequence, we prove that, under a mild cyclotomic-freeness assumption, all crystalline representations of an unramified extension of  $\mathbb{Q}_{p}$ , with Hodge–Tate weights in $[0,p]$ , are potentially diagonalizable.