Compactly supported cohomology of a tower of graphs and generic representations of \(\mathrm{PGL}_n\) over a local field (Q6057776)

Let \(F\) be a non-archimedean locally compact field and let \(G_{n}\) be the locally profinite group \(\mathrm{PGL}_{n}(F)\). \textit{P. Broussous} in [Math. Ann. 329, No. 3, 495--511 (2004; Zbl 1129.22009)] has constructed a projective tower of simplicial complexes fibred over the Bruhat-Tits building of \(G_{n}\) by means of simplicial complexes whose structure is very related to that of the Bruhat-Tits building. The same author, in a subsequent work [Ann. Fac. Sci. Toulouse, Math. (6) 18, No. 3, 495--513 (2009; Zbl 1192.22007)], has constructed, in the case \(n=2\), a slightly modified version of his previous construction. More precisely, he construct a tower of directed graphs \((\widetilde{X}_{k})_{k \geq 0}\) fibred over the Bruhat-Tits tree of \(G_{2}\). The aim of the paper under review is to generalize this last construction to the case \(n \geq 3\). More precisely the author constructs a projective tower \((\widetilde{X}_{k})_{k \geq 0}\) of directed graphs fibred over the 1-skeleton of the Bruhat-Tits building of \(G_{n}\) such that the graphs are defined in terms of combinatorial geodesic paths of the Bruhat-Tits building of \(G_{n}\).