We determine the cohomology of the closed Drinfeld stratum of p-adic Deligne–Lusztig schemes of Coxeter type attached to arbitrary inner forms of unramified groups over a local non-archimedean field. We prove that the corresponding torus weight spaces are supported in exactly one cohomological degree and are pairwise non-isomorphic irreducible representations of the pro-unipotent radical of the corresponding parahoric subgroup. We also prove that all Moy–Prasad quotients of this stratum are maximal varieties, and we investigate the relation between the resulting representations and Kirillov’s orbit method.

Let $E/F$ be a quadratic unramified extension of non-archimedean local fields and $\mathbb H$ a simply connected semisimple algebraic group defined and split over F. We establish general results (multiplicities, test vectors) on ${\mathbb H} (F)$-distinguished Iwahori-spherical representations of ${\mathbb H} (E)$. For discrete series Iwahori-spherical representations of ${\mathbb H} (E)$, we prove a numerical criterion of ${\mathbb H} (F)$-distinction. As an application, we classify the ${\mathbb H} (F)$-distinguished discrete series representations of ${\mathbb H} (E)$ corresponding to degree $1$ characters of the Iwahori-Hecke algebra.