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We study affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties in the affine flag manifold of an algebraic group, and in particular the question, which affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties are non-empty. Under mild assumptions on the group, we provide a complete answer to this question in terms of the underlying affine root system. In particular, this proves the corresponding conjecture for split groups stated in \cite{GHKR2}. The question of non-emptiness of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties is closely related to the relationship between certain natural stratifications of moduli spaces of abelian varieties in positive characteristic.

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Siegel varieties are locally symmetric varieties. They are important and interesting in algebraic geometry and number theory. We construct a canonical Hodge bundle on a Siegel variety so that the holomorphic tangent bundle can be embedded into the Hodge bundle; we obtain that the canonical Bergman metric on a Siegel variety is same as the induced Hodge metric and we describe asymptotic behavior of this unique K\"ahler-Einstein metric explicitly; depending on these properties and the uniformitarian of K\"ahler-Einstein manifold, we study extensions of the tangent bundle over any smooth toroidal compactification. We apply these results of Hodge bundles, to study dimension of Siegel cusp modular forms and general type for Siegel varieties

This paper is a contribution to the general problem of giving an explicit description of the basic locus in the reduction modulo $p$ of Shimura varieties. Motivated by \cite{Vollaard-Wedhorn} and \cite{Rapoport-Terstiege-Wilson}, we classify the cases where the basic locus is (in a natural way) the union of classical Deligne-Lusztig sets associated to Coxeter elements. We show that if this is satisfied, then the Newton strata and Ekedahl-Oort strata have many nice properties.