Deformation spaces of one-dimensional formal modules and their cohomology

Matthias Strauch

Published 2006-11-04Version 1

We study the geometry and cohomology of the (generic fibres) of formal deformation schemes of one-dimensional formal modules of finite height. By the work of Boyer (in mixed characterististic) and Harris and Taylor, the l-adic etale cohomology of these spaces realizes simultaneously the local Langlands and Jacquet-Langlands correspondences. The proofs given so far use Drinfeld modular varieties or Shimura varieties to derive this local result. In this paper we show without the use of global moduli spaces that the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence for supercuspidal representations is realized by the Euler-Poincare characteristic of the cohomology. Under a certain finiteness assumption on the cohomology groups, it is shown that the correspondence is realized in only one degree. One main ingredient of the proof consists in analyzing the boundary of the deformation spaces and in studying larger spaces which can be considered as compactifications of the deformation spaces.