-adic analytic spaces.
The goal of this paper is to study certain -adic differential operators on automorphic forms on . These operators are a generalization to the higher-dimensional, vector-valued situation of the -adic differential operators constructed for Hilbert modular forms by N. Katz. They are a generalization to the -adic case of the -differential operators first studied by H. Maass and later studied extensively by M. Harris and G. Shimura. The operators should be useful in the construction of certain -adic...