AUTOMORPHIC LEFSCHETZ PROPERTIES FOR NONCOMPACT ARITHMETIC MANIFOLDS

We prove the injectivity of Oda-type restriction maps for the cohomology of noncompact congruence quotients of symmetric spaces. This includes results for restriction between (1) congruence real hyperbolic manifolds, (2) congruence complex hyperbolic manifolds, and (3) orthogonal Shimura varieties. These results generalize results for compact congruence quotients by Bergeron and Clozel [Quelques conséquences des travaux d’Arthur pour le spectre et la topologie des variétés hyperboliques, Invent. Math.192 (2013), 505–532] and Venkataramana [Cohomology of compact locally symmetric spaces, Compos. Math.125 (2001), 221–253]. The proofs combine techniques of mixed Hodge theory and methods involving automorphic forms.

Special cycles on toroidal compactifications of orthogonal Shimura varieties

We determine the behavior of automorphic Green functions along the boundary components of toroidal compactifications of orthogonal Shimura varieties. We use this analysis to define boundary components of special divisors and prove that the generating series of the resulting special divisors on a toroidal compactification is modular.

An Euler system for GU(2, 1)

We construct an Euler system associated to regular algebraic, essentially conjugate self-dual cuspidal automorphic representations of $${{\,\mathrm{GL}\,}}_3$$ GL 3 over imaginary quadratic fields, using the cohomology of Shimura varieties for $${\text {GU}}(2, 1)$$ GU ( 2 , 1 ) .

HECKE OPERATORS AND THE COHERENT COHOMOLOGY OF SHIMURA VARIETIES

We consider the problem of defining an action of Hecke operators on the coherent cohomology of certain integral models of Shimura varieties. We formulate a general conjecture describing which Hecke operators should act integrally and solve the conjecture in certain cases. As a consequence, we obtain p-adic estimates of Satake parameters of certain nonregular self-dual automorphic representations of $\mathrm {GL}_n$ .

CM liftings of surfaces over finite fields and their applications to the Tate conjecture

We give applications of integral canonical models of orthogonal Shimura varieties and the Kuga-Satake morphism to the arithmetic of $K3$ surfaces over finite fields. We prove that every $K3$ surface of finite height over a finite field admits a characteristic $0$ lifting whose generic fibre is a $K3$ surface with complex multiplication. Combined with the results of Mukai and Buskin, we prove the Tate conjecture for the square of a $K3$ surface over a finite field. To obtain these results, we construct an analogue of Kisin’s algebraic group for a $K3$ surface of finite height and construct characteristic $0$ liftings of the $K3$ surface preserving the action of tori in the algebraic group. We obtain these results for $K3$ surfaces over finite fields of any characteristics, including those of characteristic $2$ or $3$ .