Moduli-stacks for bundles on semistable curves.
The paper is devoted to the study of the space of multiplicative maps from the Eilenberg-MacLane spectrum Hℤ to an arbitrary ring spectrum R. We try to generalize the approach of Schwede [Geom. Topol. 8 (2004)], where the case of a very special R was studied. In particular we propose a definition of a formal group law in any ring spectrum, which might be of independent interest.
Given an irreducible representation of a complex simply connected semisimple algebraic group we consider the closure of the image of in . We determine for which the variety is normal and for which is smooth.
We prove a conjecture of Kottwitz and Rapoport which implies a converse to Mazur’s Inequality for all (connected) split and quasi-split unramified reductive groups. Our results are related to the non-emptiness of certain affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties.