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The term Galois representation is frequently used when the G-module is a vector space over a field or a free module over a ring, but can also be used as a synonym for G-module. The study of Galois modules for extensions of local or global fields is an important tool in number theory.

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Motives from the fundamental group made nilpotent

I am reading the fascinating paper of Deligne on "le groupe fondamental de la droite projective moins trois points", and other stuffs related to anabelian geometry. This suggested the following ...
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Automorphic forms and Galois representations over imaginary quadratic fields: generalizing Taylor's theorem?

Let $K/\mathbf{Q}$ be an imaginary quadratic field, with $\sigma \in \mathrm{Gal}(K/\mathbf{Q})$ a generator. Suppose $\pi$ is a cuspidal automorphic representation of $GL_2 / K$ with central ...
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Can an etale (phi, Gamma) module be an extension of non-etale ones?

This question is about p-adic representations of $\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_p / \mathbb{Q}_p)$ and $(\varphi, \Gamma)$-modules. By theorems of Fontaine, Cherbonnier-Colmez and Kedlaya, the ...
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Tamagawa numbers of crystalline Galois representations

This is a followup to this question. Let $p \ge 3$ be prime, and let $V$ be a crystalline 2-dimensional representation of $G_{\mathbb{Q}_p}$ and $T$ a lattice in $V$. I'm going to assume just about ...
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P-adic local Langlands for non-unitary representations?

In Colmez's work on the p-adic local Langlands correspondence for ${\rm GL}_2(\mathbb{Q}_p)$, he works with ${\rm GL}_2(\mathbb{Q}_p)$-representations on $p$-adic Banach spaces which admit an ...
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What is a(n algebro-geometric) family of modular forms?

We know that a family of elliptic curves is a morphism of schemes $f:X \to Y$ such that the fiber of every point of $Y$ is an elliptic curve (and we usually require the morphism to be smooth, proper, ...
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Carayol via the trace formula

Hi, Is there a proof of the result that Carayol proves in "Sur les representations l-adiques..." using the Langlands-Kottwitz method of comparing the Lefschetz trace formula and the Selberg trace ...
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Galois action on $E_n$-operads

Let $E_n$ be the little $n$-cubes operad which acts on $n$-fold loop spaces (up to group completion, an $E_n$-action is precisely the data needed to perform an $n$-fold delooping). I am looking for ...
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Mod m versions of the toric part of Tate modules

Let $A$ be a polarized abelian variety over a local field $K$ with residue characteristic $p$. In the course of proving that a polarized abelian variety $A/K$ has semi-stable reduction iff for all $\...
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The significance of modularity for all Galois representations

On pg. 1 of the slides of a talk, Henri Darmon wrote: Question: What is an interesting Diophantine equation? A “working definition”. A Diophantine equation is interesting if it reveals or ...
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Can one ignore primes lying over $l$ in the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture? Counterexamples?

The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture predicts that an $l$-adic Galois representation of a number field is 'geometric' if it is unramified outside a finite set of primes and is De Rham for primes lying over $...
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Crystalline Characters

Let $K$, $L$ be finite extensions of the $p$-adic numbers. Suppose $\chi:G_K\rightarrow L^{\times}$ is crystalline. It is my understanding that if either $K$ or $L=\mathbb{Q}_p$, then $\chi$ must be a ...
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Images of action of Galois on the Tate module of Elliptic Curve,

Let E be an elliptic curve over the rationals, and let $TE = \lim_\leftarrow E[n]$ be the Tate module of the elliptic curve. The action of the Galois group of $\bf Q$ gives rise to a representation $\...
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Reference book for Galois Representations

I am an undergrad. I have taken courses in algebraic number theory and have a basic idea about $p$-adic numbers. I have also read a little bit of infinite Galois theory. But I have no idea about ...
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Finiteness of Galois cohomology

Let $k$ be a field, $X$ a smooth projective variety over $k$, $\overline{X} := X\times_k {k}^{\rm sep}$ for a separable closure ${k}^{\rm sep}$ of $k$, $\ell$ a prime with $\ell\in k^{\times}$. Are ...
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Example of a variety over a number field with non-semisimple Galois representation on $\ell$-adic cohomology

This question is inspired by the question: Example of non-projective variety with non-semisimple Frobenius action on etale cohomology? Let $K$ be a number field (or finitely generated field of ...
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A question about Galois representations

Let $K$ be a number field and $(\rho,V)$, $(\rho',V')$ be two Galois representations of $\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/K)$. Suppose that for some positive integer $n$ we have $\mathrm{Sym}^n\rho\...
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Weight filtration on certain Galois representations

Let $G$ be the absolute Galois group of a number field $K$. Let $\ell$ be a prime number. There are representations $\mathbb{Z}_\ell(n)$ of $G$ on the group of $\ell$-adic integers given by the ...
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A question about mod $p$ local Langlands for $\mathrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{Q}_{p})$

In the mod $p$ local Langlands correspondence for $\mathrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{Q}_{p})$, the irreducible supercuspidal representation $\left(\mathrm{ind}^{\mathrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{Q}_{p})}_{\mathrm{GL}_{2}(...
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On the determinant of an odd, continuous Galois representation

$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}\DeclareMathOperator\Frob{Frob}$In his paper, Duke paper, Serre consider continuous, odd Galois representation $\rho: G_{\mathbb{Q}}\longrightarrow \GL_{n}(\overline{\...
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Type of a modular form

Let $f$ be an arbitrary weight 1 newform. We know by Serre-Deligne that there is an odd 2-dimensional irreducible Artin representation $\rho$ such that $L_f(s)=L(\rho,s)$. I was wondering how much ...
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Do two dimensional representations with the same adjoint representation differ by a character?

Let $K$ be a field of characteristic not equal to $2$. Let $\text{ad} : \text{GL}_2(K) \to \text{GL}_3(K)$ be the adjoint representation, obtained by $\text{GL}_2(K)$ acting on $2 \times 2$ matrices ...
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Galois twist of a variety

Suppose $X$ is a variety over $\mathbb{Q}$ and it has a Galois twist $X'$, i.e. $X$ is isomorphic to $X'$ over $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$. The set of isomorphism classes of twists of $X$ is classified by ...
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Universal deformations of modular Galois representations

Let $\bar\rho$ be an odd, absolutely irreducible, 2-dimensional mod $p$ representation of $\operatorname{Gal}(\overline{\mathbf{Q}} / \mathbf{Q})$ (with coefficients in some finite extension $k / \...
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Is the weight in Serre's conjecture "minimal"?

Serre's conjecture says that given any odd, irreducible, continuous representation $\rho:G_{\mathbb{Q}}\rightarrow GL_2(\overline{\mathbb{F}_p})$ there is some eigenform $f$ of weight $k(\rho)$, level ...
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Commutative algebra details on patching when proving $R = \mathbb{T}$ theorem (Calegari-Geraghty Paper)

I have originally posted this on math.SE and been suggested to post this here. I'm merely an undergraduate student and it is the first time for me to ask questions here. I'm sincerely sorry if these ...
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Uncountably many non-isomorphic Tate modules

Do there exist uncountably many abelian surfaces with good reduction over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with pairwise non-isomorphic rational $p$-adic Tate modules? If we took $l$-adic Tate modules there would be ...
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Classification of finite flat group schemes over integers?

One can classify (commutative) finite flat group schemes (with order of $p$-powers) over $\mathbb Z_p$ using semi-linear algebraic datas such as Breuil-Kisin modules. And we can fix the special fiber ...
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Irreducibility of Galois representations attached to unitary groups

If $G$ is a unitary group in $n$ variables over $\mathbb Q$, attached to an hermitian form for an imaginary quadratic extension $E/\mathbb Q$ and if we suppose that the hermitian form is definite over ...
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Langlands program beyond CM fields?

I apologize since this is a quite vague question. And I am personally at an expert in these fields at all. It seems to me that there are two main directions of the Langlands program, namely, ...
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Tameness criterion in the reducible case

Dear MO, This is a follow up to a previous question here in MO, but I will make this question self-contained for convenience. Those already familiar with the following paper [G] by Gross can safely ...
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Field of definition of Galois representations of weight 1 modular forms

Let $f$ be a weight 1 modular form (let's say cuspidal, new, normalized, and a Hecke eigenform). Then there's an associated Artin representation $\rho_f: \operatorname{Gal}(\overline{\mathbf{Q}} / \...
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Field generated by the Fourier coefficients of a modular form

Let $f = \sum_n a_n q^n$ be a cuspidal newform of weight $k$ on $\Gamma_0(N)$ for some $N$. Let $K_f$ be the number field generated by the $a_q$ as $q$ runs over all primes. My question: if we ...
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When is an extension of characters de Rham?

Let $G$ be the abolute Galois group of $\mathbb Q_p$, let $\delta_1, \delta_2: G\rightarrow L^{\times}$ be continuous characters, where $L$ is a finite extension of $\mathbb Q_p$. Assume that $\...
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Extensions of Galois representations

Let $G=Gal(\bar{\mathbb Q}/{\mathbb Q})$ be the absolute Galois group of the rationals. Fix two continuous group homomorphisms $\alpha,\beta: G\to {\mathbb Q}_l^\times$, where $l$ is a prime and ${\...
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(phi, Gamma) module of ordinary elliptic curve

Suppose $E$ is an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}_p$ with good ordinary reduction. Can someone please tell me how to compute the associated $(\phi,\Gamma)$-module of the Tate module of $E$, or give ...
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number of irreducible representations over general fields

For a finite group, there are finitely many irreducible representations of complex numbers. What if the field is changed to some other fields? Like real numbers, p-adic field, finite field? In ...
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Motivation of the construction of $p$-adic period rings

Let $B$ be either $B_{\text{dR}}$ or $B_{\text{crys}}$. For a $\mathbb{Q}_p$-representation $V$ of the absolute Galois group $\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{K}/K)$ of a $p$-adic field $K$ (a finite extension ...
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Artin reciprocity via Shimura varieties

The point of Shimura varieties, as far as I've understood it, is that for a given Shimura datum $(G,D)$, there exist models, by which I mean that for congruence subgroups $\Gamma$ there exists a ...
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Misunderstanding in the hypotheses of Schlessinger's criterion

In studying deformation theory of Galois representations, I've come surely to an error, relating Schlessinger's criterion. Let's fix a representation $\bar{\rho}$ of a group $G$ and let $D_{\bar{\...
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When do the Galois reps of modular forms have open image?

Suppose f is a newform (with coefficients generating some number field E), and $\rho_{f,\lambda}: {\rm Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}} / \mathbb{Q}) \to {\rm GL}_2(E_\lambda)$ the associated Galois rep (...
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Should the etale cohomology of a smooth projective variety (over rationals) be semi-simple; why?

$\DeclareMathOperator{\char}{char}\DeclareMathOperator{\gal}{Gal}$ Let $P$ be a smooth projective variety over a field $K$ (one may certainly assume that $K$ is perfect; the case $K=\mathbb{Q}$ ...
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Is the Galois x Hecke action on cohomology of Shimura varieties semi-simple?

Given a reductive group $G/\mathbf Q$ (+ additional data), and a compact open subgroup $K\subset G(\mathbf A^\infty)$, there is a standard construction that produces a Shimura variety $S$ and if we ...
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Mazur's Question on Mod $N$ Galois representations

In Rational Isogenies of Prime Degree, Mazur poses: "the problem of determining all elliptic curves $E'/\mathbb{Q}$ with symplectic $\mathrm{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})$ isomorphisms $E'[N]\...
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P-adic representations

Hi, I am reading about p-adic representations from Fontaine's book which can be found at http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~yiouyang/research.html. On page 145 where they prove Proposition 5.24 which is ...
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Is there an R=T type result for modular forms with additive reduction?

Let E be an elliptic curve over the rationals with conductor $Mp^2$ with p>5 and M and p coprime, and let $\rho$ be the Galois representation attached to the p-torsion points of E. Is there a way to ...
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Adelic open image for modular forms?

There's a famous theorem of Serre that if $E$ is a non-CM elliptic curve over $\mathbf{Q}$, and $\rho_{E, \ell} : Gal(\overline{\mathbf{Q}}/{\mathbf{Q}}) \to GL_2(\mathbf{Z}_\ell)$ is its $\ell$-adic ...
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Image of complex conjugation by modular representations in characteristic 2

The question I am going to ask looks well-known, and I even may have heard things about it (but since I used to be deaf to anything in characteristic 2, whatever I heard has never been recorded in my ...
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How canonical are localization maps in Galois cohomology?

The setup for my question is as follows: $k$ is a field, $K$ a Galois extension of $k$ with group $G$, $k^\prime$ an arbitrary extension of $k$, and $K^\prime/k^\prime$ another Galois extension of ...
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Does Ribet's construction of class fields give us eigenspaces of rank 1?

Ribet's paper on the Herbrand-Ribet theorem constructs a representation $\rho: Gal(\overline{\Bbb Q}/\Bbb Q) \to GL_2(\mathbb F_q)$ where $q = p^r$ of the specific form: $ \begin{bmatrix} 1 & *\\ ...
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