The Cohomology of Unramified Rapoport-Zink Spaces of EL-type and Harris's Conjecture

Abstract

We study the $l$-adic cohomology of unramified Rapoport-Zink spaces of EL-type. These spaces were used in Harris and Taylor's proof of the local Langlands correspondence for $\mathrm{GL_n}$ and to show local-global compatibilities of the Langlands correspondence. In this paper we consider certain morphisms, $\mathrm{Mant}_{b, \mu}$, of Grothendieck groups of representations constructed from the cohomology of the above spaces, as studied by Harris and Taylor, Mantovan, Fargues, Shin, and others. Due to earlier work of Fargues and Shin we have a description of $\mathrm{Mant}_{b, \mu}(\rho)$ for $\rho$ a supercuspidal representation. In this paper, we give a conjectural formula for $\mathrm{Mant}_{b, \mu}(\rho)$ for all $\rho$ and prove it when $\rho$ is essentially square integrable. Our proof works for general $\rho$ conditionally on a conjecture appearing in Shin's work. We show that our description agrees with a conjecture of Harris in the case of parabolic inductions of supercuspidal representations of a Levi subgroup.