On higher-order weierstrass points and the finiteness of the automorphism group.
In this paper we study certain moduli spaces of Barsotti-Tate groups constructed by Rapoport and Zink as local analogues of Shimura varieties. More precisely, given an isogeny class of Barsotti-Tate groups with unramified additional structures, we investigate how the associated (non-basic) moduli spaces compare to the (basic) moduli spaces associated with its isoclinic constituents. This aspect of the geometry of the Rapoport-Zink spaces is closely related to Kottwitz’s prediction that their -adic...
This article confirms a consequence of the non-abelian Iwasawa main conjecture. It is proved that under a technical condition the étale cohomology groups , where is a smooth, projective scheme, are generated by twists of norm compatible units in a tower of number fields associated to . Using the “Bloch-Kato-conjecture” a similar result is proven for motivic cohomology with finite coefficients.