Sriram Chinthalagiri Venkata

arXiv2026

The unstable complex in Bruhat-Tits buildings for arithmetic groups over function fields

Let $K$ be a function field in positive characteristic, $\infty$ be a fixed place of $K$ and $K_\infty$ be the completion of $K$ at $\infty$. By the work of Serre, it is well known that, for a suitable arithmetic subgroup $Γ\subset GL_2(K)$, the $Γ$-unstable region of the Bruhat-Tits tree for $GL_2(K_\infty)$ is naturally homotopy equivalent to the spherical Tits building for $GL_2(K)$. Grayson, following Quillen's ideas, generalizes this homotopy equivalence to the non-semistable part of the Bruhat-Tits building for $GL_r(K_\infty)$. Modifying the approach described by Grayson, we are also able show a similar homotopy equivalence for the $Γ$-unstable region, for $Γ\subset GL_r(K)$ a principal congruence subgroup.

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arXiv2025

On nearly holomorphic Drinfeld modular forms for admissible coefficient rings

Let $X$ be a smooth projective and geometrically irreducible curve over the finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ with $q$ elements and $K$ be its function field. Let $\infty$ be a fixed closed point on $X$ and $A$ be the ring of functions regular away from $\infty$. In the present paper, by generalizing the previous work of Chen and the first author, we introduce the notion of nearly holomorphic Drinfeld modular forms for congruence subgroups of $GL_2(K)$ as continuous but non-holomorphic functions on a certain subdomain of the Drinfeld upper half plane. By extending the de Rham sheaf to a compactification $\overline{M_I^2}$ of the Drinfeld moduli space $M_I^2$, we also describe such forms algebraically as global sections of an explicitly described sheaf on $\overline{M_I^2}$ as well as construct a comparison isomorphism between analytic and algebraic description of them. Furthermore, we show the transcendence of special values of nearly holomorphic Drinfeld modular forms at CM points and relate them to the periods of CM Drinfeld $A$-modules.

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