Pappas–Rapoport flatness conjecture for the symplectic matrix scheme

Let PP be the scheme of block matrices defined by the equations in the source: its matrices have the form (ab0ta)\left(\begin{smallmatrix}a&b\\0&{}^ta\end{smallmatrix}\right), with tb=b{}^tb=-b, Q(a)=0Q(a)=0, and the prescribed characteristic polynomial. Let F/F0F/F_0 be the totally ramified extension and let OF0{\mathcal O}_{F_0} be its base ring.

Pappas–Rapoport flatness conjecture. The scheme PP is flat over

SpecOF0,\operatorname{Spec}{\mathcal O}_{F_0},

with reduced special fiber.

If true, this would imply flatness of the associated naive local model and provide a special case of the broader ramified local-model flatness conjecture. The supplied source gives no resolution.

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G. Pappas, M. Rapoport and B. Smithling, “Local models of Shimura varieties, I. Geometry and combinatorics”, arXiv:1011.5551 (2011).

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