Characteristic-free approaches around Yu's construction

Abstract

We give a direct characteristic-free construction of twisted Heisenberg-Weil representations when there are no symmetric and ramified roots. As a consequence, we show that twisted Yu's construction naturally extends to residual characteristic $2$. Moreover, we give a geometric realization of such twisted Heisenberg-Weil representations via the Deligne-Lusztig construction for Heisenberg group schemes. As an application, we give an explicit description of positive-depth parahoric Deligne-Lusztig induction in the generic case.