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Mar 9, 2012 at 9:13 comment added Martin Brandenburg The paper "essentially finite vector bundles on varieties with trivial vector bundle" (by Biswas, Parameswaran, Subramanian) says more about what happens in positive characteristic.
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Aug 27, 2011 at 16:54 comment added Christian Liedtke However, the converse is false in positive characteristic: Igusa has given an example of a variety with trivial tangent bundle in characteristic $2$ that is not an Abelian variety: it arises as $(E\times E')/({\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})$, where $E$ and $E'$ are elliptic curves, and the group $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ acts via sign involution on one factor and via translation of a $2$-torsion point on the other factor.
Aug 27, 2011 at 14:09 history answered Igor Rivin CC BY-SA 3.0