Flatness conjecture for spin local models of split even orthogonal groups

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Let FF be a discretely valued field with ring of integers \CO\CO, and let GG be the split even orthogonal group of rank 2n2n. Let \CL\CL be a self-dual lattice chain, and let \RM\CL±\RM^\pm_\CL be its spin local model, defined as the closed subscheme of the naive local model whose exterior-power condition uses one of the two eigenspaces W±W_\pm of the involution on FnV\bigwedge_F^n V. Let \RM\CL±\loc\RM^{\pm\loc}_\CL be the schematic closure of the generic fiber \RM\CL±F\RM^\pm_\CL\otimes F in \RM\CL±\RM^\pm_\CL. Flatness conjecture. The spin local model \RM\CL±\RM^\pm_\CL is \CO\CO-flat. Equivalently,

\RM\CL±=\RM\CL±\loc.\RM^\pm_\CL=\RM^{\pm\loc}_\CL.

This conjecture asks whether the spin condition gives the flat closure of the generic orthogonal Grassmannian in every self-dual lattice-chain case. The paper's introduction reduces the claim to reducedness of the special fiber, but the supplied text gives no resolution.

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Jie Yang, “On the flatness of spin local models for split even orthogonal groups”, arXiv:2512.16704 (2026).

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