On mod p local-global compatibility for GL_3 in the ordinary case

Abstract

Suppose that F/F+ is a CM extension of number fields in which the prime p splits completely and every other prime is unramified. Fix a place w|p of F. Suppose that rbar : Gal(F-bar/F) -> GL_3(Fp-bar) is a continuous irreducible Galois representation such that rbar|_{Gal(F_w-bar/F_w)} is upper-triangular, maximally non-split, and generic. If rbar is automorphic, and some suitable technical conditions hold, we show that rbar|_{\Gal(F_w-bar/F_w)} can be recovered from the GL_3(F_w)-action on a space of mod p automorphic forms on a compact unitary group. On the way we prove results about weights in Serre's conjecture for rbar, show the existence of an ordinary lifting of rbar, and prove the freeness of certain Taylor-Wiles patched modules in this context. We also show the existence of many Galois representations rbar to which our main theorem applies.