On the cuspidal cohomology of Iwahori congruence subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$

Abstract

We investigate automorphic forms for congruence subgroups of $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$ that are Iwahori at $p$. In particular, we study the cuspidal cohomology of Iwahori congruence subgroups $\mathcal{I}(3,p)$, which are comprised of matrices in $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$ that are upper triangular modulo $p$. In order to work with $\mathcal{I}(3,p)$, we generalize key results from Ash, Grayson, and Green [J.\ Number Theory 19 (1984), pp.\ 412-436]. For levels $\mathcal{I}(3,p)$ with $p\le 227$, we found three levels with nonzero cuspidal classes and were able to compute the action of Hecke operators at two of these levels. These are the first examples of non-essentially-self-dual automorphic representations of trivial cohomological weight that are Steinberg at $p$ appearing at Iwahori level.

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