Local Shimura varieties

This chapter specializes the theory back to the case of local Shimura varieties, and explains the relation with Rapoport-Zink spaces. It begins with a local Shimura datum. A local Shimura datum is a triple (G, b, µ) consisting of a reductive group G over Qp, a conjugacy class µ of minuscule cocharacters. Rapoport-Zink spaces are moduli of deformations of a fixed p-divisible group. After reviewing these, the chapter shows that the diamond associated with the generic fiber of a Rapoport-Zink space is isomorphic to a moduli space of shtukas of the form with µ minuscule. It then extends the results to general EL and PEL data.