On the boundary and intersection motives of genus 2 Hilbert-Siegel varieties

Abstract

We study genus 2 Hilbert-Siegel varieties, i.e. Shimura varieties $S_K$ corresponding to the group $\mbox{GSp}_{4,F}$ over a totally real field $F$, along with the relative Chow motives ${}^{\lambda }\mathcal{V}$ of abelian type over $S_K$ obtained from irreducible representations $V_{\lambda }$ of $\mbox{GSp}_{4,F}$. We analyse the weight filtration on the degeneration of such motives at the boundary of the Baily-Borel compactification and we find a criterion on the highest weight $\lambda$ which characterises the absence of the middle weights 0 and 1 in the corresponding degeneration. Thanks to Wildeshaus' theory, the absence of these weights allows us to construct Hecke-equivariant Chow motives over $\mathbb{Q}$, whose realizations equal interior (or intersection) cohomology of $S_K$ with $V_{\lambda }$-coefficients. We give applications to the construction of motives associated to automorphic representations.

39 pages; comments very welcome! (v2): some typos fixed, minor changes in the text (v3): other typos fixed, some prerequisites shortened (now 36 pages), minor changes in the text (v4) final version, accepted for publication in Documenta Mathematica (40 pages)