Pseudorepresentations and the Eisenstein ideal

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• Carl Wang Erickson (Imperial College)
• Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:00-15:00
• MR13.

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In his landmark 1976 paper “Modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal”, Mazur studied congruences modulo p between cusp forms and an Eisenstein series of weight 2 and prime level N. He proved a great deal about these congruences, but also posed a number of questions: how big is the space of cusp forms that are congruent to the Eisenstein series? How big is the extension generated by their coefficients? In joint work with Preston Wake, we give an answer to these questions using the deformation theory of Galois pseudorepresentations. The answer is intimately related to the algebraic number theoretic interactions between the primes N and p, and is given in terms of cup products (and Massey products) in Galois cohomology.

This talk is part of the Number Theory Seminar series.

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