Patching and the completed homology of locally symmetric spaces

Abstract

Under an assumption on the existence of p-adic Galois representations, we carry out Taylor--Wiles patching (in the derived category) for the completed homology of the locally symmetric spaces associated to GL(n) over a number field. We use our construction to show that standard conjectures on completed homology imply `big R = big T' theorems. In the case that n=2 and p splits completely in the number field, we relate our construction to the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for GL(2,Q_p).