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Compatibility of canonical $\ell$-adic local systems on Shimura varieties

Number Theory 2024-10-08 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

For a Shimura variety (G,X)(G, X) in the superrigid regime and neat level subgroup K0K_0, we show that the canonical family of \ell-adic representations associated to a number field point yShK0(G,X)(F)y \in \mathrm{Sh}_{K_0}(G, X)(F), {ρy, ⁣:Gal(Q/F)Gad(Q)}, \left\{ \rho_{y, \ell} \colon \mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/F) \to G^{\mathrm{ad}}(\mathbb{Q}_{\ell}) \right\}_{\ell}, form a compatible system of Gad(Q)G^{\mathrm{ad}}(\mathbb{Q}_{\ell})-representations: there is an integer N(y)N(y) such that for all \ell, ρy,\rho_{y, \ell} is unramified away from N(y)N(y) \ell, and for all \ell \neq \ell' and vN(y)v \nmid N(y)\ell \ell', the semisimple parts of the conjugacy classes of ρy,(Frobv)\rho_{y, \ell}(\mathrm{Frob}_v) and ρy,(Frobv)\rho_{y, \ell'}(\mathrm{Frob}_v) are (Q\mathbb{Q}-rational and) equal. We deduce this from a stronger compatibility result for the canonical G(Q)G(\mathbb{Q}_{\ell})-valued local systems on connected Shimura varieties inside ShK0(G,X)\mathrm{Sh}_{K_0}(G, X). Our theorems apply in particular to Shimura varieties of non-abelian type and represent the first such independence-of-\ell results in non-abelian type.

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@article{arxiv.2303.03863,
  title  = {Compatibility of canonical $\ell$-adic local systems on Shimura varieties},
  author = {Christian Klevdal and Stefan Patrikis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.03863},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

At referee's advice, the preliminary section on tame specialization has been deleted, and the abstract results for superrigid local systems have been presented in less generality. A few small corrections (especially the end of Prop 2.3) and other minor expository changes have been made