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Thomas Barnet-Lamb

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arXiv2014

Serre Weights for U(n)

We study the weight part of (a generalisation of) Serre's conjecture for mod l Galois representations associated to automorphic representations on unitary groups of rank n for odd primes l. Given a modular Galois representation, we use automorphy lifting theorems to prove that it is modular in many other weights. We make no assumptions on the ramification or inertial degrees of l. We give an explicit strengthened result when n = 3 and l splits completely in the underlying CM field.

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arXiv2013

Potential automorphy and change of weight

We prove a new automorphy lifting theorem for l-adic representations where we impose a new condition at l, which we call `potential diagonalizability'. This result allows for `change of weight' and seems to be substantially more flexible than previous theorems along the same lines. We derive several applications. For instance we show that any irreducible, odd, essentially self-dual, regular, weakly compatible system of l-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of a totally real field is potentially automorphic, and hence is pure and its L-function has meromorphic continuation to the whole complex plane and satisfies the expected functional equation.

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arXiv2011

Serre weights for rank two unitary groups

We study the weight part of (a generalisation of) Serre's conjecture for mod l Galois representations associated to automorphic representations on rank two unitary groups for odd primes l. We propose a conjectural set of Serre weights, agreeing with all conjectures in the literature, and under a mild assumption on the image of the mod l Galois representation we are able to show that any modular representation is modular of each conjectured weight. We make no assumptions on the ramification or inertial degrees of l. Our main innovation is to make use of the lifting techniques introduced in our recent papers.

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arXiv2011

Local-global compatibility for l=p, I

We prove the compatibility of the local and global Langlands correspondences at places dividing l for the l-adic Galois representations associated to regular algebraic conjugate self-dual cuspidal automorphic representations of GL_n over an imaginary CM field, under the assumption that the automorphic representations have Iwahori-fixed vectors at places dividing l and have Shin-regular weight.

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arXiv2011

Local-global compatibility for l=p, II

We prove the compatibility at places dividing l of the local and global Langlands correspondences for the l-adic Galois representations associated to regular algebraic essentially (conjugate) self-dual cuspidal automorphic representations of GL_n over an imaginary CM or totally real field. We prove this compatibility up to semisimplification in all cases, and up to Frobenius semisimplification in the case of Shin-regular weight.

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arXiv2010

Meromorphic continuation for the zeta function of a Dwork hypersurface

We consider the one-parameter family of hypersurfaces in $\Pj^5$ with projective equation (X_1^5+X_2^5+X_3^5+X_4^5+X_5^5) = 5λX_1 X_2... X_5, (writing $λ$ for the parameter), proving that the Galois representations attached to their cohomologies are potentially automorphic, and hence that the zeta function of the family has meromorphic continuation throughout the complex plane.

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arXiv2010

Potential automorphy for certain Galois representations to GL_2n

Building upon work of Clozel, Harris, Shepherd-Barron, and Taylor, this paper shows that certain Galois representations become automorphic after one makes a suitably large totally-real extension to the base field. The main innovation here is that the result applies to Galois representations to GL_{2n}, where previous work dealt with representations to GSp_n. The main technique is the consideration of the cohomology the Dwork hypersurface, and in particular, of pieces of this cohomology other than the invariants under the natural group action.

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arXiv2010

The Sato-Tate conjecture for Hilbert modular forms

We prove the Sato-Tate conjecture for Hilbert modular forms. More precisely, we prove the natural generalisation of the Sato-Tate conjecture for regular algebraic cuspidal automorphic representations of $\GL_2(\A_F)$, $F$ a totally real field, which are not of CM type. The argument is based on the potential automorphy techniques developed by Taylor et. al., but makes use of automorphy lifting theorems over ramified fields, together with a 'topological' argument with local deformation rings. In particular, we give a new proof of the conjecture for modular forms, which does not make use of potential automorphy theorems for non-ordinary $n$-dimensional Galois representations.

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arXiv2010

Non-big subgroups for l large

Lifting theorems form an important collection of tools in showing that Galois representations are associated to automorphic forms. (Key examples in dimension n>2 are the lifting theorems of Clozel, Harris and Taylor and of Geraghty.) All present lifting theorems for n>2 dimensional representations have a certain rather technical hypothesis---the residual image must be `big'. The aim of this paper is to demystify this condition somewhat. For a fixed integer n, and a prime l larger than a constant depending on n, we show that n dimensional mod l representations which fail to be big must be of one of three kinds: they either fail to be absolutely irreducible, are induced from representations of larger fields, or can be written as a tensor product including a factor which is the reduction of an Artin representation in characteristic zero. Hopefully this characterization will make the bigness condition more comprehensible, at least for large l.

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arXiv2010

Congruences between Hilbert modular forms: constructing ordinary lifts

Under mild hypotheses, we prove that if F is a totally real field, k is the algebraic closure of the finite field with l elements and r : G_F --> GL_2(k) is irreducible and modular, then there is a finite solvable totally real extension F'/F such that r|_{G_F'} has a modular lift which is ordinary at each place dividing l. We deduce a similar result for r itself, under the assumption that at places v|l the representation r|_{G_F_v} is reducible. This allows us to deduce improvements to results in the literature on modularity lifting theorems for potentially Barsotti-Tate representations and the Buzzard-Diamond-Jarvis conjecture. The proof makes use of a novel lifting technique, going via rank 4 unitary groups.

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arXiv2009

On the potential automorphy of certain odd-dimensional Galois representations

In a previous paper, the potential automorphy of certain Galois representations to GL_n for n even was established, following work of Harris, Shepherd-Barron and Taylor and using the lifting theorems of Clozel, Harris and Taylor. In this paper, we extend those results to n=3 and n=5, and conditionally to all other odd n. The key additional tools necessary are results which give the automorphy or potential automorphy of symmetric powers of elliptic curves, most notably those of Gelbert, Jacquet, Kim, Shahidi and Harris.

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