On the reduction of the Siegel moduli space of abelian varieties of dimension 3 with Iwahori level structure (Q2883482)

The subject of this paper is an explicit description of the Siegel modular variety of abelian threefolds with Iwahori level structure in positive characteristic \(p\). While the case of elliptic curves (the modular curve with \(\Gamma_0(p)\)-level structure) is well-known, and the case of abelian surfaces is still reasonably simply to cope with, the situation becomes quite complicated for three-dimensional abelian varieties. There is a natural surjection \(\pi\) from the moduli space with Iwahori level structure to the ``usual'' moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties (without level structure at \(p\)). This map is not flat. The author describes the fibers of this map explicitly in the case of abelian threefolds. This enables him to draw conclusions about the relationship between the Kottwitz-Rapoport stratification (on the Iwahori moduli space), and the Ekedahl-Oort and Newton stratifications (on the moduli space without level structure at \(p\)). This study is related to questions discussed in [\textit{T. Ekedahl} and \textit{G. van der Geer}, in: Algebra, arithmetic, and geometry. In honor of Yu. I. Manin on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Vol. I. Boston, MA: Birkhäuser. Progress in Mathematics 269, 567--636 (2009; Zbl 1200.14089); \textit{U. Görtz} and \textit{M. Hoeve}, J. Algebra 351, No. 1, 160--174 (2012; Zbl 1257.14018)] and [\textit{M. Hoeve}, Stratifications on moduli spaces of abelian varieties and Deligne-Lusztig varieties, PhD thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, (2010)]. The study of the map \(\pi\) for abelian threefolds in the paper at hand provides an enlightening and non-trivial example.