Quasi-constant characters: motivation, classification and applications

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2018.09.026MaRDI QIDQ1989705zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Wushi Goldring, Jean-Stefan Koskivirta

Publication date 29 October 2018

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.07316

zbMATH Keywords

cominusculeG-zipsHodge line bundleminusculequasi-constantShimura varieties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic aspects of modular and Shimura varieties (11G18) Variation of Hodge structures (algebro-geometric aspects) (14D07) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35)

Abstract: In our previous paper "Strata Hasse invariants, Hecke algebras and Galois representations", initially motivated by questions about the Hodge line bundle of a Hodge-type Shimura variety, we singled out a generalization of the notion of {em minuscule character} which we termed {em quasi-constant}. Here we prove that the character of the Hodge line bundle is always quasi-constant. Furthermore, we classify the quasi-constant characters of an arbitrary connected, reductive group over an arbitrary field. As an application, we observe that, if $mu$ is a quasi-constant cocharacter of an ${mathbfF}_p$-group $G$, then our construction of group-theoretical Hasse invariants in loc. cit. applies to the stack $Gmbox{-Zip}^{mu}$, without any restrictions on $p$, even if the pair $(G,mu)$ is not of Hodge type and even if $mu$ is not minuscule. We conclude with a more speculative discussion of some further motivation for considering quasi-constant cocharacters in the setting of our program outlined in loc cit.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a connected, reductive group over a field \(k\) with a maximal torus \(T\). Denote the root datum of \((G_{\bar{k}}, T_{\bar{k}})\) by \((X^*(T), \Phi, X_*(T), \Phi^\vee)\). Set \(W\) to be the Weyl group of \(T_{\bar{k}}\). As defined by the authors in [Invent. Math. 217, No. 3, 887--984 (2019; Zbl 1431.11071)], a character \(\chi \in X^*(T)\) is \emph{quasi-constant} if, for every root \(\alpha \in \Phi\) satisfying \(\langle \chi, \alpha^\vee \rangle \neq 0\) and \(\sigma \in W \rtimes \mathrm{Gal}(\bar{k}/k)\), one has \[ \dfrac{\langle \chi, \sigma \alpha^\vee \rangle}{\langle \chi, \alpha^\vee \rangle} \in \{-1, 0 ,1\}. \] \emph{Quasi-constant cocharacters} are defined in a similar way. In the paper under review, the authors classify the quasi-constant characters and cocharacters of \(G\). An important motivation for studying quasi-constant characters and cocharacters comes from the following observation. Let \((\mathbf G, \mathbf X)\) be a Shimura datum of Hodge type. The pullback of the Hodge bundle via a symplectic embedding \(\psi: (\mathbf G, \mathbf X) \rightarrow (\mathrm{GSp}(2g), \mathbf X_g)\) arises from a quasi-constant character. The classification of quasi-constant characters (resp., cocharacters) is in terms of minuscule and cominuscule characters (resp., cocharacters), and is given in two steps: the authors first deal with a special case when \(k\) is algebraically closed and \(G\) is simple and simply-connected (resp. adjoint), and then reduce the general classification to the special case. When \(G\) is semisimple, the authors also observe a duality between quasi-constant characters and quasi-constant cocharacters. The classification and the duality are then applied to improve a result in [loc. cit.]: the zip stratification of the stack \(G - \mathrm{Zip}^\mu\) is uniformly principally pure for an \(\mathbb F_p\)-group \(G\).

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