\(H^0\) of Igusa varieties via automorphic forms (Q6060144)

In the present paper, the authors describe \(H^0\) of Igusa varieties via one-dimensional automorphic representations over non-basic Newton strata of Hodge-type Shimura varieties at hyperspecial level. This is an analogue of the well-known fact that \(H^0\) of complex Shimura varieties is governed by one-dimensional automorphic representations. In order to achieve this, they develop a method and obtain various technical results with a view towards the entire cohomology of Igusa varieties as an alternating sum over all degrees. This provides a new approach and perspective to the following two problems by means of automorphic forms and representation theory. Firstly, they deduce irreducibility of Igusa towers and its generalization to non-basic Igusa varieties in the same generality. Secondly, they verify the discrete part of the Hecke orbit conjecture, which amounts to the assertion that the irreducible components of a non-basic central leaf belong to a single prime-to-\(p\) Hecke orbit. In fact, the cohomology of Igusa varieties is closely related to that of Shimura varieties via the Jacquet module operation at \(p\), relative to a proper parabolic subgroup in the non-basic case. To show that only one-dimensional automorphic representations contribute to \(H^0\) of Igusa varieties, the key representation-theoretic input is an estimate for the central action on Jacquet modules.