Questions tagged [shimura-varieties]
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Shintani's unpublished paper on automorphic forms
I'm trying to find Shintani's preprint:
Shintani T., On automorphic forms on unitary groups of order 3, unpublished, 1979.
It seems to be impossible to find, even though several authors quote it. I ...
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Several L-functions but one Galois representation: How to choose
Let $\mathbf{G}$ be a reductive group which enjoys all the nice properties a reducive group can dream of. Fix $(\mathbf{G},X)$ a Shimura datum associated with it and assume that if $K\leq\mathbf{G} $ ...
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Definition of locally symmetric space of reductive groups
This might seems like a bit of philosophical question and so maybe if I keep reading a bit more, I might get my answer. But, I ask nonetheless.
In my attempt to study Shimura varieties, I came across ...
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Reference for isomorphism between parabolic and cuspidal cohomology of the Siegel variety
I'm asking for a reference where I can find proof of isomorphism
$$H^{3}_{\text{cusp}}(Y(U),F_{\lambda})\simeq H^{3}_{\text{par}}(Y(U),F_{\lambda}),$$
where $Y(U)$ is the level $U$ shimura variety of $...
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B. W. Jordan's thesis on arithmetic of Shimura curves
I'm looking for Bruce W. Jordan's thesis: On the diophantine arithmetic of Shimura curves. Thesis, Harvard University, 1981.
I could not find the pdf at the following site.
https://www.math.harvard....
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The coarse moduli schemes of the "Shimura stacks" are the canonical models of the corresponding Shimura varieties
Let $F$ be a number field, $B$ a central simple algebra over $F$, $*$ a positive involution on $B$ which fixes $F$, and
$O_B$ a maximal $O_F$-order of $B$ which is stable under $*$.
Assume that $(B, *)...
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Are the irreducible components appearing in the resolution of singularities of a Hilbert modular surface defined over $\mathbb{Q}$?
It seems to me that this is claimed in van der Geer's "Hilbert modular surfaces" on p. 245 at the beginning of XI.2 (without justification).
My current state of belief/knowledge:
The ...
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Why do we ask Shimura datum to have Hodge weight $(-1,1),(0,0),(1,-1)$?
Why do we ask Shimura datum to have Hodge weight $(-1,1),(0,0),(1,-1)$?
I know it's related to the decomposition of a complex Lie algebra $\frak{g}_{\mathbb{C}}=\frak{t}\oplus\frak{p}^{+} \oplus \frak ...
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Why does Deligne's construction of the Galois representation attached to the new cuspidal forms require that the Kuga-Sato manifold be regular?
The origin of this question is related to the construction of Galois representations of Deligne attached to $f$ a new cuspidal form (of weight $k\geq 2$). To do this, we consider the fiber product $k$-...
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The notion of border for (complex and non-archimedean) analytic spaces and schemes
Is a manifold with corner an analytic space (just show that $\left[0, +\infty \right)^{n}$ is an analytic space, which seems obvious but maybe I'm wrong...) EDIT: as noted in the comments some complex ...
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Moduli interpretation for integral models of PEL Shimura variety at parahoric level?
Kottwitz has built canonical integral models for a large family of PEL Shimura varieties, associated to a certain reductive group $G$ over $\mathbb Q$, when the structure level has the form $K = K_pK^...
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modularity lifting theorems for non-compact unitary groups
I am reading David Geraghty's paper, 'Modularity lifting theorems for ordinary Galois representations'(https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00208-018-1742-4) and I have a related question, which,...
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Description of a Shimura variety
Let $(G, X)$ be a Shimura datum and let $U \subseteq G(\mathbb A_f)$ be an open compact subgroup. By the general theory of Shimura varieties, we get a corresponding algebraic variety $Y(U)$ defined ...
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Why are Shimura varieties the "right" objects?
So this is probably blasphemist to ask and I've resisted asking this for a while. Essentially my question is why are locally symmetric spaces/Shimura varieties the "right" object to study ...
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A local model of a Shimura variety and a local Shimura variety
I have a question about the book on p-adic geometry by Scholze and Weinstein.
There are two ‘local theories of Shimura varieties’ written in it.
The one is a local model of a Shimura variety. This is ...
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Does the construction of arithmetic toroidal compactification of $A_{g}$ depend on semistable reduction theorem?
If there is a good theory of arithmetic toroidal compactification over $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ of the Siegel modular variety with deep enough level structure, then it seems like semistable reduction theorem ...
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Explicit toroidal compactification of Hilbert modular varieties
Hirzebruch's construction of toroidal compactification of Hilbert modular surfaces is explicit, namely one can explicitly choose rational polyhedral cone decomposition in a sort of optimal way using ...
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Heuristics for the very little torsion in the cohomology of Shimura variety
Consider the following statement which is a part of Conjecture 1.3 in the paper titled "The asymptotic growth of torsion homology for arithmetic groups" authored by N. Bergeron and A. ...
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Cohomology of Shimura varieties and coherent sheaves on the stack of Langlands parameters
In Zhu's Coherent sheaves on the stack of Langlands parameters theorem 4.7.1 relates the cohomology of the moduli stack of shtukas to global sections of a certain sheaf on the stack of global ...
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Is there a classification of non-simple Jacobians?
An abelian variety in the interior of the Torelli locus is non-decomposable, but it could possibly be non-simple (i.e. isogenous to a product of abelian varieties with lower dimension). For certain ...
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Shimura varieties which are not of abelian type but has a good modular description
Deligne's idea was that Shimura varieties should be understood as moduli space of motives(with extra structures). lot's of Shimura varieties of abelian type can be understood as moduli space of ...
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complement of "good reduction" points in p-adic shimura varieties
assume that $X$ is Siegel Shimura variety defined over $\mathbb{Z}_p$, you can take its p-adic formal completion $\mathfrak{X}$,and than take it's adic generic fiber $\mathcal{X}$ and get an adic ...
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Moduli-space interpretation of a morphism of unitary Shimura varieties
Let $G$ be the quasi-split unitary similitude group $GU(2, 1)$, for some choice of imaginary quadratic field $E$; and let $T = GU(1)$ be the torus $Res_{E/Q}\mathbf{G}_m$. Then there's a morphism $\...
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Moduli interpretation of Hirzebruch-Zagier divisors
In their famous 1976 paper, Hirzebruch and Zagier define certain divisors $T_N$ on the Hilbert modular surface corresponding to the group $\text{SL}_2(\mathcal{O}_F)$ for $F=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p})$. ...
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Artin reciprocity via Shimura varieties
The point of Shimura varieties, as far as I've understood it, is that for a given Shimura datum $(G,D)$, there exist models, by which I mean that for congruence subgroups $\Gamma$ there exists a ...
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Is the cohomology of Hilbert modular surfaces spanned by special cycles?
We consider the Hilbert modular surface $X$ that parametrize abelian surface with real multiplication by $\mathcal{O}_F$ and $\mathfrak{a}$-polarization, where $F$ is a real quadratic field with ...
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versal deformation ring of a p-divisible group with some tensors
I'm trying to read Kisin's paper about the Integral model of Shimura varieties. In section five he discusses versal deformation ring of a p-divisible group. Assume that $K$ is a number field with ...
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About the type of a polarization of an abelian variety
The following is a question I posted about a week ago on Maths stackexchange there, but it didn't bring any discussion nor comment. For this reason I am posting it here also.
Let $X$ be an abelian ...
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On the moduli stack of abelian varieties without polarization
(I am especially interested in abelian surfaces and characteristic 0).
How bad is the moduli stack of abelian varieties (with no polarization or level structure)? Is it an Artin stack? DM (Deligne-...
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Quotienting $G(\mathbb{Q})_{+}$ by $G^{\text{sc}}(\mathbb{Q})$ and inner forms
Let $G/\mathbb{Q}$ be a connected reductive group, let $G^{\text{ad}}$ be the adjoint group, let $G^{\text{der}}$ be the derived group and let $\rho\colon G^{\text{sc}} \to G^{\text{der}}$ be the ...
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Definition field of weight homomorphism and moduli interpretation of Shimura varieties
In "Canonical models of Shimura curves" by J.S. Milne (avaliable at https://www.jmilne.org/math/articles/2003a.pdf), he explains the definition of quaternion Shimura curve, and explains the modern ...
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Picard rank of Shimura varieties
Let $D$ be a bounded symmetric domain and $\Gamma\subset Aut(D)$ an arithmetic subgroup of automorphisms of $D$. Write $X=\Gamma\backslash D$, it is a connected Shimura variety. Suppose that $X$ is ...
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Dependence of X in definition of Shimura variety
(Disclaimer: this question is related to this question, but is different enough that it warrants (in my opinion) a separate question)
Let $G$ be a connected reductive group over $\mathbb{Q}$. To $G$ ...
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What is known at $\ell = p$ about realizing Jacquet-Langlands & local Langlands as the cohomology of Lubin-Tate space with level structure?
Background:
(Mostly my paraphrased interpretation of the introduction of Strauch's Deformation spaces of one-dimensional formal
modules and their cohomology, with additional details from Carayol's ...
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Hodge variation
I am reading Milne's online book of Shimura Varieties https://www.jmilne.org/math/xnotes/svi.pdf, I confused by a Definition of Hodge variation. On page 29, it was said something is called Hodge ...
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Shimura varieties and connected components
Let $G$ be a connected reductive algebraic group over $\mathbf{Q}$. I've seen two slightly different definitions in the literature of the Shimura variety of level $U$, for $U \subseteq G(\mathbf{A}_{\...
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Higher dimensional generalization of an identity between traces of Hecke operators and number of elliptic curves over finite fields?
In http://www.math.ubc.ca/~behrend/ladic.pdf, the author uses his generalization of Lefschetz trace formula to smooth algebraic stacks to prove an interesting identity (Proposition 6.4.11.):
$\sum_{k}...
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Tower of moduli spaces in Scholze's theory
My question is related to another one I read here in Overflow. I am reading Scholze's papers about moduli spaces of $p$-divisible groups and elliptic curves, and I am very interested in the formal ...
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Tate module is canonically isomorphic to a $\mathbb Z_p$-lattice on Shimura Variety of Hodge Type
Let $(G, X)$ be a Shimura datum of Hodge type. Suppose that $K \le G(\mathbb A_f)$ is such a compact open subgroup that its $p$th component $K_p = \mathcal G(\mathbb Z_p)$ is a hyperspecial subgroup ...
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What is the analogy between the moduli of shtukas and Shimura varieties?
I have heard that moduli spaces of shtukas are supposed to be the analogue of Shimura varieties in the setting of function fields. Could someone more knowledgeable about these objects explain how this ...
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Shimura varieties of Hodge type
I am trying to understand the theory of integral model of Shimura variety of Hodge type, like for example in Kisin's paper "Integral models for Shimura varieties of abelian type".
I understand that ...
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Points of infinite level modular curve
Let us consider the anticanonical adic tower of modular curves which is described in Peter Scholze's paper "On torsion in the cohomology of locally symmetric varieties", and let us call $\mathcal{X}_{\...
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Involution on false elliptic curve
Let B be a indefinite quaternion algebra with discriminant $d>1$, maximal order $\mathcal{O}$ and standard involution $'$, then there exists $t\in{B}$ such that $t^2=-d$ and a new involution on B ...
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Possible groups appearing in a Shimura datum
Let $\mathbb{S}:=\text{Res}_{\mathbb{C}/\mathbb{R}} \mathbb{G}_{m}$ be the Deligne torus. My question is the following: is there a sort of classification of real reductive algebraic groups $G$ for ...
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What role do $(\mathfrak{g},K)$- modules play in the construction of automorphic vector bundles
Looking at the connection between modular forms as sections and automorphic representations it is to me somewhat clear why automorphic representations are (demanded to be) admissible $G(\mathbb{A}^\...
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What is the difference between Kisin's and Vasiu's work on models of Shimura varieties?
My research is related to integral model of Shimura varieties. I realized there are two approaches building models for varieties of pre-abelian type and abelian type. I want to know what their ...
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Compactification of symmetric spaces
Let $G = GL_n$. In the literature, I see that the symmetric space associated to $G$ is of the form $G(\mathbb{R})/K_\infty$ with $K_\infty = O(n) Z(\mathbb{R})^\circ = O(n) \mathbb{R}^\times_{+}$. ...
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What is wrong with this modification of the definition of Shimura datum?
The definition of a "connected Shimura datum" (as in Milne's notes) is a pair $(G, X)$, where $G$ is a reductive algebraic group and $X$ is a $G(\mathbb{R})$-conjugacy class of morphisms
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Orbits under an algebraic group inside a Shimura variety
Let $(G,X)$ be a Shimura datum, $K$ a compact open subgroup of $G(\mathbb A_f)$. Let $H\subset G$ be a $\mathbb Q$-subgroup. Choose a point $x\in X$. What can be said about the orbit $H(\mathbb R)\...
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Mysterious "raison d'être" of filtrations of congruence subgroups
I wonder for long why congruence subgroups seem to arise so naturally in certain filtrations. Everything below is on a local field $F_p$.
Filtration for $GL_n$. Casselman and later Jacquet, Piatetski-...
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