\(p\)-adic Hodge-theoretic properties of étale cohomology with \(\mod{p}\) coefficients, and the cohomology of Shimura varieties (Q2353497)

The authors prove vanishing results of étale cohomology of unitary Shimura varieties after localising at certain Hecke ideals. One of the main results of their paper is: {Theorem A.} Let \(X\) be a projective \(\mathrm{U}(2,1)\)-Shimura variety of some sufficiently small level, and let \(\mathcal{F}\) be a canonical local system of \(\bar{\mathbb{F}}_p\)-vector spaces on \(X\). Let \(\mathfrak{m}\) be a maximal ideal of the Hecke algebra acting on the cohomology \(H^{\bullet}_{\mathrm{et}}(X,\mathcal{F})\) and suppose that there is a Galois representation \(\rho _{\mathfrak{m}}: G_F \rightarrow \mathrm{GL}_3(\bar{\mathbb{F}}_p)\) associated to \(\mathfrak{m}\). Futhermore, suppose that we have \(\mathrm{SL}_3(k) \subset \rho _{\mathfrak{m}} (G_F) \subset \bar{\mathbb{F}}_p ^{\times} \mathrm{SL}_3(k)\) for some finite extension \(k/\mathbb{F}_p\) and that \(\rho _{\mathfrak{m} | G_{\mathbb{Q}_p}}\) is \(1\)-regular and irreducibe. Then the localisations \(H^i _{\mathrm{et}} (X_{\bar{\mathbb{Q}}}, \mathcal{F})_{\mathfrak{m}}\) vanish in degrees \(i \not = 2\). This theorem is then used to establish certain cases of the weight part of the Serre conjecture for \(\mathrm{U}(2,1)\).