TITLE: N´eron models, purity, and Shimura varieties

ABSTRACT: We show how different purity properties can be used to obtain new examples of N´eron models. As a direct application, we use Shimura varieties of Hodge type to get in arbitrary mixed characteristic, the very first examples of general nature of projective N´eron models whose generic fibres are not finite schemes over abelian varieties.

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