Tempered currents and Deligne cohomology of Shimura varieties, with an application to $\mathrm{GSp}_6$

Abstract

We provide a new description of Deligne-Beilinson cohomology for any Shimura variety in terms of tempered currents. This is particularly useful for computations of regulators of motivic classes and hence to the study of Beilinson conjectures. As an application, we construct classes in the middle degree plus one motivic cohomology of Siegel sixfolds and we compute their image by Beilinson higher regulator in terms of Rankin-Selberg type automorphic integrals. Using results of Pollack and Shah, we relate the integrals to noncritical special values of the degree $8$ Spin $L$-functions, as predicted by Beilinson conjectures.