Non-Eisenstein cohomology of locally symmetric spaces for $GL_2$ over a CM field

Abstract

Let $F$ be a CM field, let $p$ be a prime number. The goal of this paper is to show, under mild conditions, that the modulo $p$ cohomology of the locally symmetric spaces $X$ for $GL_2(F)$ with level prime to $p$ is concentrated in degrees belonging to the Borel-Wallach range $[q_0,q_0+\ell_0]$ after localizing at a "strongly non-Eisenstein" maximal ideal of the Hecke algebra. From this result, we deduce expected consequences on the structure of the first and last cohomology groups as modules over the Hecke algebra.