On the Cohomology of Locally Symmetric Spaces and of their Compactifications

Details On the Cohomology of Locally Symmetric Spaces and of their Compactifications On the Cohomology of Locally Symmetric Spaces and of their Compactifications

2003-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/math/0306403v2

Current Developments in Mathematics, 2002 (D. Jerison, G. Lusztig, B. Mazur, T. Mrowka, W. Schmid, R. Stanley, and S.-T. Yau,

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Representation Theory

71 pages, 30 figures, AMS-LaTeX, uses XyPic 3.7 package; to appear in the proceedings of the Harvard/M.I.T. conference "Curren

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This expository article is an expanded version of talks given at the "Current Developments in Mathematics, 2002" conference. It gives an introduction to the (generalized) conjecture of Rapoport and Goresky-MacPherson which identifies the intersection cohomology of a real equal-rank Satake compactification of a locally symmetric space with that of the reductive Borel-Serre compactification. We motivate the conjecture with examples and then give an introduction to the various topics that are involved: intersection cohomology, the derived category, and compactifications of a locally symmetric space, particularly those above. We then give an overview of the theory of L-modules and micro-support (see math.RT/0112251) which was developed to solve the conjecture but has other important applications as well. We end with sketches of the proofs of three main theorems on L-modules that lead to the resolution of the conjecture. The text is enriched with many examples, illustrations, and references to the literature.

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