On Farrell–Tate cohomology of GL3 over rings of quadratic integers

Abstract

The goal of the present paper is to push forward the frontiers of computations on mod ℓ Farrell–Tate cohomology for arithmetic groups. We deal with ℓ-rank 1 cases different from PSL2. The conjugacy classification of cyclic subgroups of order ℓ is reduced to the classification of modules of Cℓ-group rings over suitable rings of integers which are principal ideal domains, generalizing an old result of Reiner. As an example of the number-theoretic input required for the Farrell–Tate cohomology computations, we discuss in detail the homological torsion in PGL3 over principal ideal rings of quadratic integers, accompanied by machine computations in the imaginary quadratic case.