Finite groups scheme actions and incompressibility of Galois covers: beyond the ordinary case

From MaRDI portal
Publication:2670002




Abstract: Inspired by recent work of Farb, Kisin and Wolfson, we develop a method for using actions of finite group schemes over a mixed characteristic dvr R to get lower bounds for the essential dimension of a cover of a variety over K = Frac(R). We then apply this to prove p-incompressibility for congruence covers of a class of unitary Shimura varieties for primes p at which the reduction of the Shimura variety (at any prime of the reflex field over p) does not have any ordinary points. We also make some progress towards a conjecture of Brosnan on the p-incompressibility of the multiplication by p map of an abelian variety.









This page was built for publication: Finite groups scheme actions and incompressibility of Galois covers: beyond the ordinary case

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2670002)