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Semisimplicity of induced representation of a irreducible representation
This question occurs when I read this one.
Suppose $k$ is a field of char $0$ (not necessarily complex numbers, in my case it's $\mathbb Q_p$), and $G$ is a profinite group (in my case, $\operatorname{...
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Prime splitting in the division field of an elliptic curve
Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be an elliptic curve with good reduction at two distinct primes $p, \ell$. Suppose the mod $\ell$ Galois representation associated to $E$ is surjective. Let $K=\mathbb{Q}(E[\ell])$ ...
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Understanding absolute Galois group from its representations
Background. A major theme of modern number theory is to study the absolute Galois group $\text{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb Q} / \mathbb Q)$. Galois representation theory attempts to understand $\text{Gal}(\...
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A variant of the inverse Galois problem
In Theorem I of Construction of maximal unramified p-extensions with prescribed Galois groups, it's proved that
for any prime $p$ and any given finite $p$-group $G$, there exists a number field $F$ ...
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What is the smallest group not known to be a Galois group over $\mathbb{Q}$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\PSL{PSL}$What is the smallest group not known to be a Galois group over $\mathbb{Q}$?
Variants have been asked here before (e.g. Which small finite ...
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Decomposition of the Galois group of the $m$-th division field of an elliptic curve with CM into a direct product of Galois groups
Let $E/\mathbb{Q}$ be an elliptic curve with CM from an imaginary quadratic field $K$. Let $K(E[m])$ denote $m$-th division field (number field obtained by adjoining the coordinates of the $m$-torsion ...
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How to construct this non-geometric mod $p$ Galois representation?
Let $ K $ be a totally real cubic field. I am concerned with the following kind of Inverse Galois Problem:
Is there a prime $ p>5 $ and a continuous representation $ \bar{\rho}:G_{K}\to {\rm
GL}_{...
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Galois extension of $ C_{k} $ field and irreducible polynomial over $ C_{k} $ field
A field is called a $ C_{k}$- field if every form i.e. every homogeneous polynomial of degree $ d $ in $ n > d^{k} $ indeterminates has a nontrivial zero. We know that any finite field is a $ C_{...
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$p$-adic Hodge theoretic properties of global Galois representations via $\ell$-Frobenii
Let $G_{\mathbb{Q},S} = \mathrm{Gal}(\mathbb{Q}_S/\mathbb Q)$ where $\mathbb Q_S$ is the largest algebraic extension of $\mathbb Q$ unramified outside a finite set of places $S$. Then the union over $\...
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Is semi-simplicity of Galois representations local?
Let $\rho:G_{\mathbb{Q}}\rightarrow \text{Gl}(V)$ be a finite dimensional $\ell$-adic Galois representation. Then for each prime, by pre-composing $\rho$ with the natural inclusion $G_{\mathbb{Q}_p}\...
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Galois theory of ramified coverings vs classical Galois theory
That's an exact copy of my former MSE question I asked a couple of weeks ago and unfortunately not got the answer I was looking for.
The question adresses reuns' answer in this thread: Algebraic ...
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Properties of Mod $\ell^m$ Galois representation associated to modular form
(Sorry for my poor english..)
Let $F(z)\in S_{2k}(SL_2(\mathbb{Z})$) be a newform and $\ell$ be a prime larger than $3$. Let $K$ be a some number field and $v$ be a prime of $K$ over $\ell$. Let $K_v$...
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Intrinsicness of Hodge-theoretic properties of Galois representations in a general reductive group
In the paper "The conjectural connections between automorphic representations and Galois representations" by Buzzard and Gee, it is said
"We say that
$\rho$ is crystalline/de Rham/Hodge–Tate if ...
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Classification of mod p Galois Representations for l not equal to p
Let $l\neq p$ be primes and let $\text{G}_l:=\text{G}_{\mathbb{Q}_l}$. Let $k$ be a finite field of characteristic $p$ and $\bar{\rho}:\text{G}_l\rightarrow \text{GL}_2(k)$ a local Galois ...
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Local polynomials of Frobenius-semisimple Weil representations which are tensor products of an Artin representation and an unramified character
Let $K$ be a local field and $\rho: W_K \to \operatorname{GL}(V)$ be a Weil representation. The for any finite extension $F/K$, we define the local polynomial
$$
P(\rho|_F,T) = \det{(1 - \operatorname{...
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Frobenius eigenvalues algebraic numbers
Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety over $\mathbf{F}_q$ and $\overline{X}$ its base change to $\overline{\mathbf{F}_q}$.
By Deligne’s Weil I, the eigenvalues of the geometric Frobenius acting on $...
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Is the following variant of Shafarevich's theorem known?
Let $Q$ be a finite simple group which may be realized as the Galois group of some extension of $\mathbb{Q}$ (like for instance $PSL_2(\mathbb{F}_p)$ for $p\geq 5$, or the monster group) and let $G$ ...
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Local factors determine Weil representations - proof of the Artin representation case
This post can be seen as a continuation of this post I created on MathOverflow.
I want to understand the proof of the following Theorem from "Euler Factors determine Weil Representations" by Tim and ...
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Local factors determine Weil representations - proof of the cyclic case
I already created this post on Math Stack Exchange but I was not so sure if this question fits better here. If it is not, I want to apologize in advance and feel free to delete my post.
I want to ...
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Class number of the cyclotomic tower
Let ${\Bbb Q}(\zeta_{\infty})$ be the field obtained by adjoining all roots of unity. We define
Cl(${\Bbb Q}(\zeta_{\infty})$)$\colon= \underset{m > 1}{\varinjlim}~{\mathrm{Cl}}({\Bbb Z}[\zeta_m])...
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Abelian $\ell$-adic representations in $\widehat{\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb{Z})}$
$\DeclareMathOperator\SL{SL}\DeclareMathOperator\Gal{Gal}\newcommand{\Z}{\mathbb{Z}}$In Grothendieck's Esquisse he claims that the action of
$$\Gal(\mathbb Q)\to\text{Out}(\pi_1(M_{1,1})=\text{Out}(\...
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Cyclotomic character in class field theory
Let $K$ be an extension of $\mathbb{Q}_p$.
By local class field theory, the $p$-adic cyclotomic character $\mathrm{Gal}_K \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_p^\times$ corresponds to a character $\chi : K^\times \...
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Generalization of Kummer isomorphism?
This is a question I asked on math.stackexchange without success.
Let $p$ be a prime number and denote by $\mathbb{F}_p(1)$ the one dimensional vector space over $\mathbb{F}_p$ endowed with an action ...
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non-continuous inverse Galois problem
Let $G=Gal(\bar{\mathbf{Q}}/\mathbf{Q})$ be the absolute Galois group over $\mathbf{Q}$.
Q1: Is it possible to find a (necessarily non-closed) normal subgroup $K\leq G$ such that
$G/K$ is free of ...
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What is the relation of the absolute Galois group and classical profinite groups?
Consider the absolute Galois group $G = \mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}: \mathbb{Q})$ and $G_p = \mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}_p}: \mathbb{Q}_p)$.
Abelian class field theory gives us for the ...
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Galois theory of endomorphism rings of irreducible representations
Let $k$ be a field which I don't suppose to be algebraically closed. Then, the endomorphism ring of any irreducible representation of a finite group over $k$ is a division ring.
What is known about ...
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Number theory textbook based on the absolute Galois group?
I've just finished reading Ash and Gross's Fearless Symmetry, a wonderful little pop mathematics book on, among other things, Galois representations. The book made clear a very interesting ...