On higher regulators of Picard modular surfaces
This paper studies motivic classes on Picard modular surfaces with non-trivial coefficients, their relation to interior motives, and non-critical values of motivic L-functions associated with cuspidal automorphic representations of GU(2,1).
Abstract
We prove that the motivic classes in the motivic cohomology groups of Picard modular surfaces with non-trivial coefficients constructed in work of Loeffler–Skinner–Zerbes lie in the motivic cohomology groups of the interior motives. We then establish a relation between these classes and non-critical values of motivic L-functions associated to cuspidal automorphic representations of GU(2,1), deducing non-triviality of the classes and providing evidence for Beilinson’s conjectures.