The connected components of affine Deligne--Lusztig varieties
arXiv:2208.07195 · doi:10.1007/s00222-025-01386-1
Abstract
We compute the connected components of arbitrary parahoric level affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties and local Shimura varieties, thus resolving a folklore conjecture in full generality (even for non-quasisplit groups). We achieve this by relating them to the connected components of infinite level moduli spaces of p-adic shtukas, where we use v-sheaf-theoretic techniques such as the specialization map of kimberlites. Along the way, we give a p-adic Hodge-theoretic characterization of HN-irreducibility. As applications, we obtain many results on the geometry of integral models of Shimura varieties of Hodge type at arbitrary stabilizer-parahoric levels. In particular, we deduce new CM lifting results on integral models of Shimura varieties for quasisplit groups at parahoric levels that arise as stabilizer Bruhat-Tits group schemes.
56 pages. Comments are welcome! We added details to some proofs and made some other minor modifications. This is the accepted version; to appear in Inventiones