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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 & *\\
...