Non-quasi-$F$-split canonical affine fourfolds in any characteristic
Teppei Takamatsu, Shou Yoshikawa
TL;DR
This work addresses the construction of canonical Gorenstein affine fourfolds in all positive characteristics that fail to be quasi-$F$-split. The authors construct a family of hypersurfaces $X_m=\mathrm{Spec}\, k[x,y,z,w,t]/(f+t^m)$ using a quartic $f$ with carefully chosen $p$-dependent properties so that $A[t]/(f+t^m)$ is not quasi-$F$-split, and then realize a $ ext{$ ext{Q}$}$-factorial canonical affine fourfold via a controlled sequence of blowups whose exceptional loci are cones over a smooth K3 surface defined by $f$. The proof splits by characteristic, handling $p\neq 2$ and $p=2$ through the $ abla(f)$–Delta$$(f)$$-based obstructions, and relies on Kleiman and KTY results to certify non quasi-$F$-split and $ ext{$ ext{Q}$}$-factoriality. By extending known examples from the $p=3$ case to all positive characteristics, the paper provides explicit, characteristic-wide counterexamples and a Birational framework linking $F$-singularity phenomena to K3 geometry and Artin invariants in dimension four.
Abstract
We construct canonical $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial Gorenstein affine fourfolds in every positive characteristic that are not quasi-$F$-split.
