Classicality for small slope overconvergent automorphic forms on some compact PEL Shimura varieties of type C

Abstract

We study the rigid cohomology of the ordinary locus in some compact PEL Shimura varieties of type C with values in automorphic local systems and use it to prove a small slope criterion for classicality of overconvergent Hecke eigenforms. This generalises the work of Coleman, and is a first step in an ongoing project to extend the cohomological approach to classicality to higher-dimensional Shimura varieties.

31 pages. Essentially final version. Hypothesis on p removed from previous version. Accepted, to appear in Math. Annalen