Topological flatness of local models for ramified unitary groups. II. The even dimensional case

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1475-3030|13|2|303-393

ISSN: 1474-7480

Source: Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, Vol.13, Iss.2, 2014-04, pp. : 303-393

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Abstract

Local models are schemes, defined in terms of linear-algebraic moduli problems, which are used to model the étale-local structure of integral models of certain $p$ -adic PEL Shimura varieties defined by Rapoport and Zink. In the case of a unitary similitude group whose localization at ${ \mathbb{Q} }_{p} $ is ramified, quasi-split $G{U}_{n} $ , Pappas has observed that the original local models are typically not flat, and he and Rapoport have introduced new conditions to the original moduli problem which they conjecture to yield a flat scheme. In a previous paper, we proved that their new local models are topologically flat when $n$ is odd. In the present paper, we prove topological flatness when $n$ is even. Along the way, we characterize the $\mu $ -admissible set for certain cocharacters $\mu $ in types $B$ and $D$ , and we show that for these cocharacters admissibility can be characterized in a vertexwise way, confirming a conjecture of Pappas and Rapoport.