Affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties in affine flag varieties

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1570-5846|146|5|1339-1382

ISSN: 0010-437x

Source: Compositio Mathematica, Vol.146, Iss.5, 2010-09, pp. : 1339-1382

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Abstract

This paper studies affine Deligne–Lusztig varieties in the affine flag manifold of a split group. Among other things, it proves emptiness for certain of these varieties, relates some of them to those for Levi subgroups, and extends previous conjectures concerning their dimensions. We generalize the superset method, an algorithmic approach to the questions of non-emptiness and dimension. Our non-emptiness results apply equally well to the p-adic context and therefore relate to moduli of p-divisible groups and Shimura varieties with Iwahori level structure.