Arithmetic Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties

By studying the degeneration of abelian varieties with PEL structures, this book explains the compactifications of smooth integral models of all PEL-type Shimura varieties, providing the logical foundation for several exciting recent developments. The book is designed to be accessible to graduate students who have an understanding of schemes and abelian varieties.


PEL-type Shimura varieties, which are natural generalizations of modular curves, are useful for studying the arithmetic properties of automorphic forms and automorphic representations, and they have played important roles in the development of the Langlands program. As with modular curves, it is desirable to have integral models of compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties that can be described in sufficient detail near the boundary. This book explains in detail the following topics about PEL-type Shimura varieties and their compactifications:



  • A construction of smooth integral models of PEL-type Shimura varieties by defining and representing moduli problems of abelian schemes with PEL structures

  • An analysis of the degeneration of abelian varieties with PEL structures into semiabelian schemes, over noetherian normal complete adic base rings

  • A construction of toroidal and minimal compactifications of smooth integral models of PEL-type Shimura varieties, with detailed descriptions of their structure near the boundary


Through these topics, the book generalizes the theory of degenerations of polarized abelian varieties and the application of that theory to the construction of toroidal and minimal compactifications of Siegel moduli schemes over the integers (as developed by Mumford, Faltings, and Chai).

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Arithmetic Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties

By studying the degeneration of abelian varieties with PEL structures, this book explains the compactifications of smooth integral models of all PEL-type Shimura varieties, providing the logical foundation for several exciting recent developments. The book is designed to be accessible to graduate students who have an understanding of schemes and abelian varieties.


PEL-type Shimura varieties, which are natural generalizations of modular curves, are useful for studying the arithmetic properties of automorphic forms and automorphic representations, and they have played important roles in the development of the Langlands program. As with modular curves, it is desirable to have integral models of compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties that can be described in sufficient detail near the boundary. This book explains in detail the following topics about PEL-type Shimura varieties and their compactifications:



  • A construction of smooth integral models of PEL-type Shimura varieties by defining and representing moduli problems of abelian schemes with PEL structures

  • An analysis of the degeneration of abelian varieties with PEL structures into semiabelian schemes, over noetherian normal complete adic base rings

  • A construction of toroidal and minimal compactifications of smooth integral models of PEL-type Shimura varieties, with detailed descriptions of their structure near the boundary


Through these topics, the book generalizes the theory of degenerations of polarized abelian varieties and the application of that theory to the construction of toroidal and minimal compactifications of Siegel moduli schemes over the integers (as developed by Mumford, Faltings, and Chai).

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Arithmetic Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties

Arithmetic Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties

by Kai-Wen Lan
Arithmetic Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties

Arithmetic Compactifications of PEL-Type Shimura Varieties

by Kai-Wen Lan

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Overview

By studying the degeneration of abelian varieties with PEL structures, this book explains the compactifications of smooth integral models of all PEL-type Shimura varieties, providing the logical foundation for several exciting recent developments. The book is designed to be accessible to graduate students who have an understanding of schemes and abelian varieties.


PEL-type Shimura varieties, which are natural generalizations of modular curves, are useful for studying the arithmetic properties of automorphic forms and automorphic representations, and they have played important roles in the development of the Langlands program. As with modular curves, it is desirable to have integral models of compactifications of PEL-type Shimura varieties that can be described in sufficient detail near the boundary. This book explains in detail the following topics about PEL-type Shimura varieties and their compactifications:



  • A construction of smooth integral models of PEL-type Shimura varieties by defining and representing moduli problems of abelian schemes with PEL structures

  • An analysis of the degeneration of abelian varieties with PEL structures into semiabelian schemes, over noetherian normal complete adic base rings

  • A construction of toroidal and minimal compactifications of smooth integral models of PEL-type Shimura varieties, with detailed descriptions of their structure near the boundary


Through these topics, the book generalizes the theory of degenerations of polarized abelian varieties and the application of that theory to the construction of toroidal and minimal compactifications of Siegel moduli schemes over the integers (as developed by Mumford, Faltings, and Chai).


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781400847518
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 03/24/2013
Series: London Mathematical Society Monographs
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 584
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Kai-Wen Lan is assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

  • FrontMatter, pg. i
  • Contents, pg. v
  • Acknowledgments, pg. xi
  • Introduction, pg. xiii
  • Chapter One. Definition of Moduli Problems, pg. 1
  • Chapter Two. Representability of Moduli Problems, pg. 91
  • Chapter Three. Structures of Semi-Abelian Schemes, pg. 143
  • Chapter Four. Theory of Degeneration for Polarized Abelian Schemes, pg. 175
  • Chapter Five. Degeneration Data for Additional Structures, pg. 285
  • Chapter Six. Algebraic Constructions of Toroidal Compactifications, pg. 373
  • Chapter Seven. Algebraic Constructions of Minimal Compactifications, pg. 447
  • Appendix A. Algebraic Spaces and Algebraic Stacks, pg. 487
  • Appendix B. Deformations and Artin’s Criterion, pg. 519
  • Bibliography, pg. 535
  • Index, pg. 545

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