Dimensions of some affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties
Abstract
This paper concerns the dimensions of certain affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties, both in the affine Grassmannian and in the affine flag manifold. Rapoport conjectured a formula for the dimensions of the varieties X_mu(b) in the affine Grassmannian. We prove his conjecture for b in the split torus; we find that these varieties are equidimensional; and we reduce the general conjecture to the case of superbasic b. In the affine flag manifold, we prove a formula that reduces the dimension question for X_x(b) with b in the split torus to computations of dimensions of intersections of Iwahori orbits with orbits of the unipotent radical. Calculations using this formula allow us to verify a conjecture of Reuman in many new cases, and to make progress toward a generalization of his conjecture.
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@article{arxiv.math/0504443,
title = {Dimensions of some affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties},
author = {Ulrich Goertz and Thomas J. Haines and Robert E. Kottwitz and Daniel C. Reuman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0504443},
year = {2007}
}
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51 pages, 12 figures