ERC Advanced Grant : AAMOT (Arithmetic of Automorphic Motives)
PI : Michael HARRIS
In studying the arithmetic of automorphic Galois representations, an important role is played by global cohomology classes coming from algebraic cycles on Shimura varieties, or more generally from algebraic K-theory; these are the building blocks of Euler systems. Unfortunately, it is surprisingly difficult to prove that these cohomology classes are non-zero! One of the key inputs for the recent progress in the theory of Euler systems was a new approach to solving such problems, developed by Bertolini, Darmon and Prasanna, in which the non-vanishing of Galois cohomology classes can be obtained by relating them to p-adic period integrals via Besser's rigid syntomic cohomology. I will explain some examples of this strategy, for Galois representations arising from products of modular curves and Hilbert modular surfaces, and survey the problems that must be solved to extend this method to more general Shimura varieties.
