Hecke modules and supersingular representations of U(2,1)

Abstract

Let F be a nonarchimedean local field of odd residual characteristic p. We classify finite-dimensional simple right modules for the pro-p-Iwahori-Hecke algebra $\mathcal{H}_C(G,I(1))$, where G is the unramified unitary group U(2,1)(E/F) in three variables. Using this description when C is the algebraic closure of $\mathbb{F}_p$, we define supersingular Hecke modules and show that the functor of I(1)-invariants induces a bijection between irreducible nonsupersingular mod-p representations of G and nonsupersingular simple right $\mathcal{H}_C(G,I(1))$-modules. We then use an argument of Paskunas to construct supersingular representations of G.