On $p$-adic vanishing cycles of log smooth families

In this paper, we will show that the sheaf of p-adic vanishing cycles of a log smooth family over a DVR of mixed characteristic is generated by Milnor symboles. A key ingredient is a computation (due to K. Kato) on the graded quotients of a multi-indexed filtration on the sheaf concerned, which has been used in several papers of the first author.