Résumé
For a finite extension F of
${\mathbf Q}_p$
, Drinfeld defined a tower of coverings of
(the Drinfeld half-plane). For
$F = {\mathbf Q}_p$
, we describe a decomposition of the p-adic geometric étale cohomology of this tower analogous to Emerton’s decomposition of completed cohomology of the tower of modular curves. A crucial ingredient is a finiteness theorem for the arithmetic étale cohomology modulo p whose proof uses Scholze’s functor, global ingredients, and a computation of nearby cycles which makes it possible to prove that this cohomology has finite presentation. This last result holds for all F; for
$F\neq {\mathbf Q}_p$
, it implies that the representations of
$\mathrm{GL}_2(F)$
obtained from the cohomology of the Drinfeld tower are not admissible contrary to the case
$F = {\mathbf Q}_p$
.