Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Acknowledgements 15
5. Chapter I. Preliminaries 17
6. Chapter II. Barsotti-Tate groups 59
7. Chapter III. Some simple Shimura varieties 89
8. Chapter IV. Igusa varieties 121
9. Chapter V. Counting Points 149
10. Chapter VI. Automorphic forms 195
11. Chapter VII. Applications 217
12. Appendix. A result on vanishing cycles 257
13. Bibliography 261
14. Index 269