Finite Group Actions on Siegel Modular Spaces

Lai, K. F.; Lee, Ronnie

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Finite Group Actions on Siegel Modular Spaces
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Abstract:

The theory of nonabelian cohomology is used to show that the set of fixed points of a finite group acting on a Siegel modular space is a union of Shimura varieties

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