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Target category for a full p-adic twistor correspondence

Identify and characterize the appropriate target category that should accompany the functorial construction of p-adic twistors, specifying the precise notion of "p-adic twistors" expected to form the counterpart of inscribed vector bundles with meromorphic integrable connection, in analogy with the p-adic Simpson correspondence.

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Background

The paper constructs a fully faithful exact tensor functor from \mathbb{Q}_p-local systems to twistors on the relative thickened Fargues–Fontaine curve and discusses its relation to a conjecture of Fargues and Liu–Zhu about a functor to a category of p-adic twistors.

However, the authors note that, unlike the p-adic Simpson correspondence where the target category is clear (Higgs bundles over the base), in this p-adic twistor setting the correct counterpart category remains unclear. Pinpointing this category is necessary to complete the envisioned twistor correspondence and unify the constructions with broader expectations in p-adic Hodge theory.

References

This is not really an honest claim, however: by analogy with the $p$-adic Simpson correspondence, what we have constructed here is more like the canonical twisted Higgs field on a $v$-vector bundle over $Z\diamond$ than it is like its $p$-adic Simpson correspondent, which is an \textit{e}tale vector bundle on $Z$ equipped with a Higgs field. However, unlike in the $p$-adic Simpson correspondence, it is not clear to us what category should appear on the other side.

Inscription, twistors, and $p$-adic periods (2508.11589 - Howe, 15 Aug 2025) in Section "Twistors on the relative thickened Fargues-Fontaine curve", Remark (Remark.FarguesLiuZhuDiscussion)