Hecke orbits on Shimura varieties of Hodge type

Marco D'Addezio, Pol van Hoften

Published 2022-05-20Version 1

We prove the Hecke orbit conjecture of Chai--Oort for Shimura varieties of Hodge type at primes of good reduction, under a mild assumption on the size of the prime. Our proof uses a new generalisation of Serre--Tate coordinates for deformation spaces of central leaves in such Shimura varieties, constructed using work of Caraiani--Scholze and Kim. We use these coordinates to give a new interpretation of Chai--Oort's notion of strongly Tate-linear subspaces of these deformation spaces. This lets us prove upper bounds on the local monodromy of these subspaces using the Cartier--Witt stacks of Bhatt--Lurie. We also prove a rigidity result in the style of Chai--Oort for strongly Tate-linear subspaces. Another main ingredient of our proof is a new result on the local monodromy groups of $F$-isocrystals "coming from geometry", which should be of independent interest.