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Integral canonical models for Spin Shimura varieties

Number Theory 2025-05-29 v6 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

We construct regular integral canonical models for Shimura varieties attached to Spin groups at (possibly ramified) odd primes. We exhibit these models as schemes of 'relative PEL type' over integral canonical models of larger Spin Shimura varieties with good reduction. Work of Vasiu-Zink then shows that the classical Kuga-Satake construction extends over the integral model and that the integral models we construct are canonical in a very precise sense. We also construct good compactifications for our integral models. Our results have applications to the Tate conjecture for K3 surfaces, as well as to Kudla's program of relating intersection numbers of special cycles on orthogonal Shimura varieties to Fourier coefficients of modular forms.

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@article{arxiv.1212.1243,
  title  = {Integral canonical models for Spin Shimura varieties},
  author = {Keerthi Madapusi Pera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1243},
  year   = {2025}
}

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