Local coherence for representations of amalgams

In all forms of the local Langlands program the abelian category of smooth representations of p-adic groups G in vector spaces over a field k plays a central role. Of particular interest are its finiteness properties. If the field k has characteristic zero then, by work of Bernstein, this category is most of the time locally noetherian. But if the field has characteristic p then this remains the case only for very special groups. The basic idea of this paper is that if G is an amalgam, i.e., a colimit of certain subgroups then this is reflected by Mod(G) being the limit of the corresponding categories for these subgroups. This allows to deduce finiteness properties of Mod(G) from finite properties of the categories in the limit diagram.