%0 Journal Article
%T Fundamental elements of an affine Weyl group
%A Sian Nie
%J Mathematics
%D 2013
%I arXiv
%X Fundamental elements are certain special elements of affine Weyl groups introduced by Gortz, Haines, Kottwitz and Reuman. They play an important role in the study of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties. In this paper, we obtain characterizations of the fundamental elements and their natural generalizations. We also derive an inverse to a version of "Newton-Hodge decomposition" in affine flag varieties. As an application, we obtain a group-theoretic generalization of Oort's results on minimal p-divisible groups, and we show that, in certain good reduction reduction of PEL Shimura datum, each Newton stratum contains a minimal Ekedahl-Oort stratum. This generalizes a result of Viehmann and Wedhorn.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2229v2