On the number of cusps of orthogonal Shimura varieties (Q2258227): Difference between revisions

From the author's introduction: ``This paper is focused on the boundary points of the Baily-Borel compactification of ortogonal Shimura varieties. More precisely, given an integral lattice \(L\) with associated integral quadratic form q of signature \((2, n)\), let \(Y\) denote the connected Hermitian symmetric domain \(\mathrm{SO}^+ ( L)(\mathbb R) \times \mathrm{SO}( n)\). Then for an arithmetic group \(\Gamma \subset \mathrm{SO}^+ ( L)\), the space \( \Gamma\backslash Y\) inherits the structure of a quasi-projective variety. The boundary of its canonical minimal compactification contains at most \(0\) and \(1\)-dimensional cusps. There is a bijection between the number of cusps and the \(G\)-orbits of isotropic subspaces inside \(V := L\otimes \mathbb Q \).'' The author studies these orbits in the special case when \(L\) is a maximal lattice which splits two hyperbolic planes, i.e. \(L \cong \mathbb H \perp \mathbb H \perp A\), where \(A\) is a lattice whose genus \(gen( A)\) is uniquely determined. If \(Y\) is the connected Hermitian space associated to \(\mathrm{SO}^+ ( L)\) and \(\Gamma\) the discriminant kernel of \(\mathrm{SO}^+ ( L)\), then the number of \(1\)-dimensional cusps in the Baily-Borel compactification of \(\mathrm{SO}^+ ( L)\backslash Y\) (resp. \(\Gamma\backslash Y)\) is equal to \(\sum_{ A' \in gen(A)}\frac{2}{ [O(A' ) : \mathrm{SO}(A')]}\) (resp. \(\sum_{ A \in gen(A)} \frac{2}{ [O(A' ) : \mathrm{SO}(A')]} \cdot \frac{ | O(\Delta(A' )|} {| \rho (\mathrm{SO}(A' ) |}\), where \(\rho : O( A') \to O(\Delta ( A'))\) is the projection map and \(\Delta( A' )\) is the discriminant group \(A'{}^\vee /A' )\). A formula is also given for the number of 0-dimensional cusps in the associated \(\Gamma\)- Shimura variety.