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Angus McAndrew

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arXiv2022

Galois descent for motives: the K3 case

A theorem of Grothendieck tells us that if the Galois action on the Tate module of an abelian variety factors through a smaller field, then the abelian variety, up to isogeny and finite extension of the base, is itself defined over the smaller field. Inspired by this, we give a Galois descent datum for a motive $H$ over a field by asking that the Galois action on an $\ell$-adic realisation factor through a smaller field. We conjecture that this descent datum is effective, that is if a motive $H$ satisfies the above criterion, then it must itself descend to the smaller field. We prove this conjecture for K3 surfaces, under some hypotheses. The proof is based on Madapusi-Pera's extension of the Kuga-Satake construction to arbitrary characteristic.

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arXiv2021

Differential operators mod $p$: analytic continuation and consequences

This paper concerns certain $\mod p$ differential operators that act on automorphic forms over Shimura varieties of type A or C. We show that, over the ordinary locus, these operators agree with the $\mod p$ reduction of the $p$-adic theta operators previously studied by some of the authors. In the characteristic $0$, $p$-adic case, there is an obstruction that makes it impossible to extend the theta operators to the whole Shimura variety. On the other hand, our $\mod p$ operators extend ("analytically continue", in the language of de Shalit and Goren) to the whole Shimura variety. As a consequence, motivated by their use by Edixhoven and Jochnowitz in the case of modular forms for proving the weight part of Serre's conjecture, we discuss some effects of these operators on Galois representations. Our focus and techniques differ from those in the literature. Our intrinsic, coordinate-free approach removes difficulties that arise from working with $q$-expansions and works in settings where earlier techniques, which rely on explicit calculations, are not applicable. In contrast with previous constructions and analytic continuation results, these techniques work for any totally real base field, any weight, and all signatures and ranks of groups at once, recovering prior results on analytic continuation as special cases.

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arXiv2012

Experimental evidence for Maeda's conjecture on modular forms

We describe a computational approach to the verification of Maeda's conjecture for the Hecke operator T2 on the space of cusp forms of level one. We provide experimental evidence for all weights less than 12000, as well as some applications of these results. The algorithm was implemented using the mathematical software Sage, and the code and resulting data were made freely available.

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