Geometric rationality of equal-rank Satake compactifications

DOI10.4310/MRL.2004.V11.N5.A9zbMATH Open1078.11035arXivmath/0211138OpenAlexW2116989005MaRDI QIDQ1769979FDOQ1769979

Authors: Leslie Saper 

Publication date: 5 April 2005

Published in: Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Satake has constructed compactifications of symmetric spaces D=G/K which (under a condition called geometric rationality by Casselman) yield compactifications of the corresponding locally symmetric spaces. The different compactifications depend on the choice of a representation of G. One example is the Baily-Borel-Satake compactification of a Hermitian locally symmetric space; Baily and Borel proved this is always geometrically rational. Satake compactifications for which all the real boundary components are equal-rank symmetric spaces are a natural generalization of the Baily-Borel-Satake compactification. Recent work (see math.RT/0112250, math.RT/0112251) indicates that this is the natural setting for many results about cohomology of compactifications of locally symmetric spaces. In this paper we prove any Satake compactification for which all the real boundary components are equal-rank symmetric spaces is geometrically rational aside from certain rational rank 1 or 2 exceptions; we completely analyze geometric rationality for these exceptional cases. The proof uses Casselman's criterion for geometric rationality. We also prove that a Satake compactification is geometrically rational if the representation is defined over the rational numbers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211138

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zbMATH Keywords

locally symmetric spacesSatake compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Stratifications; constructible sheaves; intersection cohomology (complex-analytic aspects) (32S60) Cohomology of arithmetic groups (11F75) Modular and Shimura varieties (14G35) Intersection homology and cohomology in algebraic topology (55N33)

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