Stratifications of flag spaces and functoriality

Abstract

We define quotient stacks of "zip flags". They form towers above the stack of $G$-zips introduced by Moonen, Pink, Wedhorn and Ziegler. We define a stratification on the stack of zip flags, and prove that it is principally pure, under a certain assumption on $p$. The fiber product with a Shimura variety of Hodge-type is a generalization of flag spaces considered by Ekedahl-Van der Geer. For large $p$, we prove that all strata are affine. We prove a theorem on discreteness of fibers for finite morphisms between stacks of $G$-zips. This allows us to prove that the zip stratification is principally pure for all primes $p$, for zip data of Hodge-type. This provides a second proof, entirely in characteristic $p$, of the existence of generalized Hasse invariants for Ekedahl-Oort strata in the good reduction of Shimura varieties of Hodge-type.