Let GL_n be the general linear group scheme over the integers.We show that the p-adic completion of GL_n possessescertain remarkable Frobenius lifts attached to integral symmetric matrices; these Frobenius liftscan be viewed as arithmetic analogues, for Spec Z, of the Levi-Civita connection attached to a metric on a manifold. We then show how these Frobeniuslifts admit algebraizations by correspondences on GL_n; the commutatorsof these correspondences can be viewed as an arithmetic analogue, for Spec Z, of Riemannian curvature.
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[1] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/de/node/3444
[3] http://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/de/node/246