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Special cycles on unitary Shimura varieties II: global theory

Algebraic Geometry 2012-12-19 v2 Number Theory

Abstract

We introduce moduli spaces of abelian varieties which are arithmetic models of Shimura varieties attached to unitary groups of signature (n-1, 1). We define arithmetic cycles on these models and study their intersection behaviour. In particular, in the non-degenerate case, we prove a relation between their intersection numbers and Fourier coefficients of the derivative at s=0 of a certain incoherent Eisenstein series for the group U(n, n). This is done by relating the arithmetic cycles to their formal counterpart from Part I via non-archimedean uniformization, and by relating the Fourier coefficients to the derivatives of representation densities of hermitian forms. The result then follows from the main theorem of Part I and a counting argument.

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@article{arxiv.0912.3758,
  title  = {Special cycles on unitary Shimura varieties II: global theory},
  author = {Stephen Kudla and Michael Rapoport},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3758},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

Material on occult period maps has been moved to a separate article. Various corrections and improvements in exposition have been made. Accepted for publication in Crelle