P-adic L-functions for GL(3)

Abstract: Let $\Pi$ be a regular algebraic cuspidal automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}3(\mathbb{A}{\mathbb{Q}})$. When $\Pi$ is $p$-ordinary for the maximal standard parabolic with Levi $\mathrm{GL}_1 \times \mathrm{GL}_2$, we construct a $p$-adic $L$-function for $\Pi$. More precisely, we construct a (single) bounded measure $L_p(\Pi)$ on $\mathbb{Z}_p^\times$ attached to $\Pi$, and show it interpolates all the critical values $L(\Pi\times\eta,-j)$ at $p$ in the left-half of the critical strip for $\Pi$ (for varying $\eta$ and $j$). This proves conjectures of Coates--Perrin-Riou and Panchishkin in this case. Our construction uses the theory of spherical varieties to build a "Betti Euler system'', a norm-compatible system of classes in the Betti cohomology of a locally symmetric space for $\mathrm{GL}_3$. We work in arbitrary cohomological weight, allow arbitrary ramification at $p$ along the other maximal standard parabolic, and make no self-duality assumption.