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Local monodromy of unit root F-isocrystals from Shimura varieties

Number Theory 2026-07-11 v1

Abstract

We generalise a local pp-adic monodromy theorem of Igusa that studies the monodromy representation associated to the universal elliptic curve around a supersingular point of the modular curve. Let XX be a smooth quasi-projective variety over Fp\mathbb{F}_p. We set up and prove the analog of Igusa's theorem for overconvergent F-isocrystals on XX such that the action of the Frobenius is algebraic, pp-plain, and semisimple at the closed points of XX. We study the local monodromy of their unit root sub-objects around a point in XX with isoclinic Newton slopes. In particular, our result generalises Igusa's Theorem to overconvergent F-isocrystals arising from Shimura varieties, unconditionally for Shimura varieties of abelian type and conditional on Frobenius semisimplicity for exceptional Shimura varieties where this property is not known yet. In the particular case of Siegel Shimura varieties, we also prove an analogous result for the local monodromy of a point in the boundary of its compactification. As a consequence of our results, we prove a finiteness result for the reduction of the Hecke orbit of abelian varieties over a local field of equicharacteristic.

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@article{arxiv.2607.10054,
  title  = {Local monodromy of unit root F-isocrystals from Shimura varieties},
  author = {Tejasi Bhatnagar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.10054},
  year   = {2026}
}