On the crystalline cohomology of Deligne–Lusztig varieties

Let X→Y0 be an abelian prime-to-p Galois covering of smooth schemes over a perfect field k of characteristic p>0. Let Y be a smooth compactification of Y0 such that Y−Y0 is a normal crossings divisor on Y. We describe a logarithmic F-crystal on Y whose rational crystalline cohomology is the rigid cohomology of X, in particular provides a natural W[F]-lattice inside the latter; here W is the Witt vector ring of k. If a finite group G acts compatibly on X, Y0 and Y then our construction is G-equivariant. As an example we apply it to Deligne–Lusztig varieties. For a finite field k, if is a connected reductive algebraic group defined over k and a k-rational torus satisfying a certain standard condition, we obtain a meaningful equivariant W[F]-lattice in the cohomology (ℓ-adic or rigid) of the corresponding Deligne–Lusztig variety and an expression of its reduction modulo p in terms of equivariant Hodge cohomology groups.