The supersingular locus of the Shimura variety for GU(1,s)

Abstract

In this paper we study the supersingular locus of the reduction modulo p of the Shimura variety for GU(1,s) in the case of an inert prime p. Using Dieudonn\'e theory we define a stratification of the corresponding moduli space of p-divisible groups. We describe the incidence relation of this stratification in terms of the Bruhat-Tits building of a unitary group. In the case of GU(1,2), we show that the supersingular locus is equi-dimensional of dimension 1 and is of complete intersection. We give an explicit description of the irreducible components and their intersection behaviour.