Excentric compactifications (Q2501377)

Let \(D\) be a hermitian symmetric space of noncompact type, and let \(\Gamma\) be an arithmetically defined group of isomorphisms of \(D\). Then the associated locally symmetric variety \(X = \Gamma \backslash D\) allows various types of compactifications. Let \(\overline{X}\), \(X^*\), and \(X^{\text{tor}}\) be the Borel-Serre, Baily-Borel, and toroidal, respectively, compactifications of \(X\). Then there are morphisms \(X^{\text{tor}} \to X^* \leftarrow \overline{X}\), which induce a morphism \(h: X^{\text{tor}} \to \overline{X}^{\text{red}}\). In this paper the author considers compactifications of a homogeneous vector bundle \(E \to X\) and obtains a homotopy equivalence between \(E^{\text{tor}}\) and \(h^* \overline{E}^{\text{red}}\).