Galois descent and cohomology for algebraic groups.
We study the moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties in positive characteristic. In this paper we determine the Newton polygon of any generic point of each Ekedahl-Oort stratum, by proving Oort’s conjecture on intersections of Newton polygon strata and Ekedahl-Oort strata. This result tells us a combinatorial algorithm determining the optimal upper bound of the Newton polygons of principally polarized abelian varieties with a given isomorphism type of -kernel.
Let be a positive integer and a complete characteristic zero discrete valuation ring with maximal ideal , absolute ramification index and perfect residue field of characteristic . In this paper we classify smooth finite dimensional formal -faithful groups over , i.e. groups on which the “multiplication by ” morphism is faithfully flat, in particular -divisible groups. As applications, we prove that -divisible groups over , and the morphisms between them, lift canonically to , and...