A trace formula approach to control theorems for overconvergent automorphic forms

Abstract

We present an approach to proving control theorems for overconvergent automorphic forms on some Harris-Taylor unitary Shimura varieties based on a comparison between the rigid coho- mology of the multiplicative ordinary locus and the rigid cohomology of the overlying Igusa tower, the latter which may be computed using the Harris-Taylor version of the Langlands-Kottwitz method. We also prove a higher level version, generalizing work of Coleman.