Special subvarieties in Mumford-Tate varieties (Q2415884)

Let $X=\Gamma \backslash D$ be a Mumford-Tate variety, i.e., a quotient of a Mumford-Tate domain $D=G(\mathbb{R})/V$ by a discrete subgroup $\Gamma$. Mumford-Tate varieties are generalizations of Shimura varieties. In their previous work, the authors studied special subvarieties in Shimura varieties of unitary or orthogonal type. Their method consists of characterizing special subvarieties by a relative proportionality principle. In the present paper, the authors generalize this principle to quotients of Mumford-Tate domains. They define the notion of a special subvariety $Y \subset X$ of Shimura type, and give necessary and sufficient criteria for a subvariety $Y$ of $X$ to be a special subvariety of Shimura type in the sense of the André-Oort conjecture.