A Tannakian description of the local Kaletha gerbe
Alexander Bertoloni Meli, Peter Dillery
TL;DR
The work constructs RigIsoc$_F$, a semisimple Tannakian category whose fiber-functor gerbe is canonically identified with Kaletha's Galois gerbe $\mathcal{E}_{Kal}$, thereby realizing the Kal gerbe in a Tannakian framework. The objects of RigIsoc$_F$ are explicit quadruples $(V,\tilde{\Phi},n,E)$ tied to finite Galois data and graded $L_E$-modules, assembled via four operations (products, modules, limits, descent) on isocrystal-like data, and organized so that their associated gerbe represents the class $-1$ in $\widehat{\mathbb{Z}} \cong H^{2}(\Gamma_{\overline{F}/F},u(\overline{F}))$. A Newton-map $f_X$ associates each simple object with a homomorphism from the Kaletha pro-torus $u$ into $\mathrm{GL}_{n}$, and basic objects correspond to elliptic twisted Levi centralizers $\mathrm{Res}_{E/F}(\mathrm{GL}_s)$; the simple-object classification is given by $\Gamma_{\tilde{E}/F}$-orbits of tuples in $(\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z})^{\mathrm{Hom}_{F}(E',\overline{F})}$ satisfying slope-sum and coprimality conditions. The paper also relates RigIsoc$_F$ to Isoc$_F$ and Fargues' extended isocrystals, showing functorial links to the crystalline/Dieudonné framework and to a refined geometrization path for the local Langlands program. Altogether, this provides a concrete, computable description of the Kaletha Galois gerbe within a semisimple Tannakian setting and a complete parameterization of its simple objects via elliptic twisted Levi data.
Abstract
We construct, for a $p$-adic field $F$, an explicit semisimple Tannakian category $\text{RigIsoc}_{F}$ whose category of fiber functors recovers Kaletha's Galois gerbe $\mathcal{E}_{\text{Kal}}$. We then classify and write down the simple objects in $\text{RigIsoc}_{F}$, all of which come from elliptic twisted Levi subgroups of $\mathrm{GL}_{n}$.
