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Twisted loop groups and their affine flag varieties
We develop a theory of affine flag varieties and of their Schubert varieties
for reductive groups over a Laurent power series local field k((t)) with k a
perfect field. This can be viewed as a generalization of the theory of affine
flag varieties for loop groups to a "twisted case"; a consequence of our
results is that our construction also includes the flag varieties for Kac-Moody
Lie algebras of affine type. We also give a coherence conjecture on the
dimensions of the spaces of global sections of the natural ample line bundles
on the partial flag varieties attached to a fixed group over k((t)) and some
applications to local models of Shimura varieties.Comment: LaTex, 73 page
Local models of Shimura varieties, I. Geometry and combinatorics
We survey the theory of local models of Shimura varieties. In particular, we
discuss their definition and illustrate it by examples. We give an overview of
the results on their geometry and combinatorics obtained in the last 15 years.
We also exhibit their connections to other classes of algebraic varieties such
as nilpotent orbit closures, affine Schubert varieties, quiver Grassmannians
and wonderful completions of symmetric spaces.Comment: 86 pages, small corrections and improvements, to appear in the
"Handbook of Moduli
Non-ergodicity of the motion in three dimensional steep repelling dispersing potentials
It is demonstrated numerically that smooth three degrees of freedom
Hamiltonian systems which are arbitrarily close to three dimensional strictly
dispersing billiards (Sinai billiards) have islands of effective stability, and
hence are non-ergodic. The mechanism for creating the islands are corners of
the billiard domain.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, submitted to Chao
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