In Completed Cohomology, we mentioned that the p-adic local Langlands correspondence may be found inside the completed cohomology, and that this is used in the proof of the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. In this post, we elaborate on these ideas. We shall be closely following the Séminaire Bourbaki article Correspondance de Langlands p-adique, compatibilité local-global et applications by Christophe Breuil.
Let us make the previous statement more precise. Let be a finite extension of
, with ring of integers
, uniformizer
, and residue field
. Let us assume that
contains the Hecke eigenvalues of a cuspidal eigenform
of weight
. Consider the etale cohomology
of the open modular curve
(we will define this more precisely later). Then we have that
contains
, where
is the p-adic Galois representation associated to
(see also Galois Representations Coming From Weight 2 Eigenforms), and
is the smooth representation of
associated to
by the local Langlands correspondence (see also The Local Langlands Correspondence for General Linear Groups).
For , if we are given
, then we can recover
. Therefore the local Langlands correspondence, at least for
, can be found inside
. This is what is known as local-global compatibility.
If , however, it is no longer true that we can recover
from
. Instead, the “classical” local Langlands correspondence needs to be replaced by the p-adic local Langlands correspondence (which at the moment is only known for the case of
). The p-adic local Langlands correspondence associates to a p-adic local Galois representation
a p-adic Banach space
over
equipped with a unitary action of
. The p-adic local Langlands correspondence is expected to be “compatible” with the classical local Langlands correspondence, in that, if the Galois representation is potentially semistable with distinct Hodge-Tate weights the
representation provided by the classical local Langlands correspondence (tensored with an algebraic representation that depends on the Hodge-Tate weights) shows up as the “locally algebraic vectors” of the p-adic Banach space provided by the p-adic local Langlands correspondence (we shall make this more precise later).
In the case of the p-adic local Langlands correspondence we actually have a functor that goes the other way, i.e. from p-adic Banach spaces with a unitary action of to Galois representations
. We denote this functor by
(it is also known as Colmez’s Montreal functor). In fact the Montreal functor
not only works for representations over
, but also representations over
(hence realizing one direction of the mod p local Langlands correspondence, see also The mod p local Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Q_p)) and more generally over
. The Montreal functor hence offers a solution to our problem of the classical local Langlands correspondence being unable to recover back the Galois representation from the
-representation.
Therefore, we want a form of local-global compatibility that takes into account the p-adic local Langlands correspondence. In the rest of this post, if we simply say “local-global compatibility” this is what we refer to. We will use “classical” local-global compatibility to refer to the version that only involves the classical local Langlands correspondence instead of the p-adic local Langlands correspondence.
A review of completed cohomology and the statement of local-global compatibility
As may be hinted at by the title of this post and the opening paragraph, the key to finding this local-global compatibility is completed cohomology. Let us review the relevant definitions (we work in more generality than we did in Completed Cohomology). Let be the finite adeles of
. For any compact subgroup
of
we let
.
Next let be a compact open subgroup of
(here the superscript
means we omit the factor indexed by
in the restricted product) and let
be a compact open subgroup of
. We define
.
We let . This is a p-adic Banach space, with unit ball given by
. It has a continuous action of
which preserves the unit ball. We also let
and
. We refer to any of these as the completed cohomology. The appearance of Banach spaces should clue us in that this is precisely what we need to formulate a local-global compatibility that includes the p-adic local Langlands correspondence, since the representation of
that shows up there is also a Banach space.
Let . We define
to be the subspace of
consisting of vectors
for which there exists a compact open subgroup
of
such that the representation of
generated by
in
restricted to
is the direct sum of algebraic representations of
restricted to
.
We will work in a more general setting than just weight cuspidal eigenforms (whose associated Galois representations can be found in
, as discussed earlier). Therefore, in order to take account cuspidal eigenforms of weight
, we will replace
with
, where
is the sheaf on the etale site of
that corresponds to the local system on
given by
Now , from which we can obtain the “classical” local-global compatibility, is related to the completed cohomology (from which we want to obtain the local-global compatibility that involves the p-adic local Langlands correspondence) via the following
-equivariant isomorphism:
where really is shorthand for the character
of
, and in this last expression
is the p-adic cyclotomic character.
By taking invariants under the action of , we also have the following
-equivariant isomorphism:
Before we give the statement of local-global compatibility let us make one more definition. We first need to revisit the Hecke algebra. Let be a compact open subgroup of
. We define
to be the
-algebra of
generated by
and
. We define
Now let be an absolutely irreducible odd continuous p-adic Galois representation, unramified at all but finitely many places. We say that
is promodular if there exists a finite set of places
, containing
and the places at which
is ramified, such that the ideal of
generated by
and
is a maximal ideal of
.
We may now give the statement of local-global compatibility. We start with the “weak” version of the statement. Let be a
-dimensional odd representation of
which is unramified at all but a finite set of places. Assume that the residual representation
is absolutely irreducible, and that its restriction to
is not isomorphic to a Galois representation of the form
.
For ease of notation we also let denote
. Then the weak version of local-global compatibility says that, if
is promodular, then there exists a finite set of places
containing
and the places at which
is ramified, such that we have the following nonzero continuous
-equivariant morphism:
Furthermore, if is not the direct sum of two characters or the extension of a character by itself, all the morphisms will be closed injections.
The strong version of local-global compatibility is as follows. Assume the hypothesis of the weak version and assume further that the restriction of to
is not isomorphic to a twist of
by some character. Then we have a
-equivariant homeomorphism
In this post we will only discuss ideas related to the proof of the weak version of local-global compatibility. It will proceed as follows. First we reduce the problem of showing local-global compatibility to the existence of a map . Then to show that this map exists, we construct, using (completions of) Hecke algebra-valued deformations of the relevant residual representations of
and
, a module
, and showing that, for any maximal ideal
, the submodule of
annihilated by
is nonzero. Initially we shall show this only for “crystalline classical maximal ideals”, but these will turn out to be dense in the completion of the Hecke algebra, which will show that the result is true for all maximal ideals.
A Preliminary Reduction
To show local-global compatibility, it is in fact enough for us to show the existence of a -equivariant map
Let us briefly discuss why this is true. Consider the smooth induced representation with compact support over
. We have that
. Now let
be a smooth representation of
over
, and let
,
be in
. We have
Now let be such that
and
, for
. It follows from the (classical) local Langlands correspondence that
Let denote the subspace of
on which
acts by
. The results that we have just discussed now tell us that the space
is isomorphic to the space
.
Furthermore, it follows from Eichler-Shimura relations (which relate the action of and
on
that the previous space is also isomorphic to
.
Furthermore, for each of these isomorphisms, a morphism on one side of the isomorphism is a closed injection if and only if the corresponding morphism is also a closed injection. Therefore, as earlier stated, to show local-global compatibility it will be enough for us to show that a -equivariant map
exists.
Representations valued in a completion of the Hecke algebra
To show the existence of this map , we will construct a module that we shall denote by
. Before we can define this module though, we need to make some definitions involving the Hecke algebra, and representations valued in (completions of) this Hecke algebra.
Let be an absolutely irreducible odd continuous residual Galois representation. Let us suppose furthermore that
is modular.
Let be a compact open subgroup of
. We let
be the completion of
with respect to the maximal ideal generated by
,
, and
. We define
Since is absolutely irreducible, for every compact open subgroup
of
such that
the work of Carayol provides us with a unique continuous Galois module
unramified outside
such that
and
.
We define . This is a deformation of
over the complete Noetherian local
-algebra
(see also Galois Deformation Rings). After restriction to
, we may also look at
as a deformation of
.
Now let is the representation associated to
by the mod p local Langlands correspondence. We also want to construct a deformation
of
, that is related to
by the p-adic local Langlands correspondence.
Let be the deformation ring that represents the functor which assigns to a complete Noetherian local
-algebra the set of deformations of
over
. We define
to be the the quotient of
by the intersection of all maximal ideals which are kernels of a map
for some extension
of
such that the representation over
obtained by base change from the universal representation over
is crystalline with distinct Hodge-Tate weights (see also p-adic Hodge Theory: An Overview).
Similarly, we have a deformation ring Let that represents the functor which assigns to a complete Noetherian local
-algebra
the set of deformations of
over
. Recall that the p-adic local Langlands correspondence provides us with the Montreal functor
from representations of
to representations of
, which means we have a map
. We let
be the quotient of
parametrizing deformations
of
whose central character corresponds to
under local class field theory. We define
Now it turns out that the surjection is actually an isomorphism. A consequence of this is that, if we have a complete Noetherian local
-algebra
that is a quotient of
, any deformation
of
over
comes from a deformation
of
via the Montreal functor
.
Now all we need to do to construct is to find an appropriate complete Noetherian local
-algebra
. We recall that
is a deformation of
over
, so we want to find
inside of
, apply the discussion in the previous paragraph, and then we can extend scalars to obtain the deformation
over
. To do this we need to show to discuss crystalline classical maximal ideals, and show that they are Zariski dense inside
(this fact will also be used again to achieve the goal we stated earlier of showing the existence of a map
).
We say that a maximal ideal of
is classical if the system of Hecke eigenvalues associated to
comes from a cuspidal eigenform of weight
.
Let be a classical maximal ideal of
. Then we have a representation
which is potentially semistable with distinct Hodge-Tate weights. We say that the classical maximal ideal is crystalline if the associated Galois representation is crystalline.
Let us now outline the argument showing that the crystalline classical maximal ideals are dense in . This is the same as the statement that the intersection of all crystalline classical maximal ideals is zero. And so our strategy will be to show that any element
in this intersection acts by
on
.
Let be a sufficiently small compact open subgroup of
. Then the
-representation
is a topological direct factor of
for some
, where
is the
-representation provided by the continuous
-valued functions on
.
Now it happens that the polynomial functions of are dense inside the continuous functions
. This implies that the vectors in
for which
acts algebraically are dense in
. Since, by the previous paragraph,
is a topological direct factor of
for
sufficiently small, this implies that a similar result holds for
. Taking limits over
, we obtain that the vectors in
for which
acts by an algebraic representation of
are dense in
.
If is a maximal ideal of
, we write
to denote the submodule of
annihilated by
. We now have that
is contained in
, where the direct sum is over all classical maximal ideals of
. Furthermore, the subrepresentation of
generated by the vectors for which
acts by an algebraic representation is contained in
, where the direct sum is now over all crystalline classical maximal ideals of
. Now it turns out that, if
is the Galois representation associated to some cuspidal eigenform
of weight
, the representation
contains a vector fixed under the action of
if and only if
is crystalline. If
is an element in the intersection of all the crystalline classical maximal ideals, it annihilates
, and therefore also the subrepresentation of
generated by the vectors for which
acts by an algebraic representation. But this subrepresentation is dense in
and by continuity
acts by zero on
. This shows that the intersection of all the crystalline classical maximal ideals is zero and that they are Zariski dense in
.
Since the crystalline classical maximal ideals are dense in in , we have that the map
factors through
. Now we find our complete Noetherian local
-algebra
mentioned earlier as the image of the map
, so that we can obtain a deformation
of
that gives rise to
via the Montreal functor
. Then we extend scalars to
to obtain
.
Existence of the map
Now that we have the -valued representations
and
, we may now define the module
which as we said will help us prove the existence of a map
. It is defined as follows:
Let be a maximal ideal of
. We let
denote the set of elements of
that are annihilated by the elements of
. Our aim is to show that
for all maximal ideals. As we shall show later, applying this to the maximal ideal generated by
,
, and
will give us our result. Our approach will be to show first that
for “crystalline” maximal ideals, then, using the fact that the crystalline classical maximal ideals are Zariski dense in
, show that this is true for all maximal ideals of
.
Let be a crystalline classical maximal ideal of
. Then
. To show this, we choose some field
that contains
. Now recall again that we have
Now since contains
, we find that inside
there lies a tensor product of
and some locally algebraic representation of
. What the crystalline condition on
does is it actually provides us with at most one equivalence class of invariant norms on this locally algebraic representation of
, which must be the one induced by
on
. It turns out that after completion, the representation of
on the resulting p-adic Banach space is precisely
if
is irreducible, and a closed subrepresentation of
if
is reducible (here
and
, and these two correspond to each other under the p-adic local Langlands correspondence).
Now we know that if
is a crystalline classical maximal ideal. Now we want to extend this to all the maximal ideals of
by making use of the fact that the set of crystalline classical maximal ideals is Zariski dense inside
.
The idea is that, if for all maximal ideals
that belong to some set
that is Zariski dense in
, then
for all maximal ideals
in
. Let us consider first the simpler case of a module
of finite type over
. We want to show that if
for all
then
for all maximal ideals
in
.
Since is maximal,
is a field, and
acts faithfully on
. If some element
acts by zero on
it must act by zero on
for all
. If
for all
, then this element
must be in the intersection of all the
in
, but since
is Zariski dense in
, this intersection is zero and
has to be zero.
Suppose for the sake of contradiction that for all
but
for some maximal ideal
in
. Then Nakayama’s lemma says that there exists some nonzero element
such that
. But this contradicts the above paragraph, so we must have
for all maximal ideals
in
.
Now let be a compact open subgroup of
, and let
be defined similarly to
but with
in place of
. We apply the above argument to
, which is a
-module of finite type. Then it is a property of
(which is
) that
if
for sufficiently small
.
Now that we know that for all maximal ideals
of
, we apply this to the particular maximal ideal
generated by
and
. But we have
where again and
. Since we have just shown that the left-hand side of the above isomorphism is nonzero, then so must the right hand-side, which means there is map
.
Furthermore this map is a closed injection if is not a direct sum of two characters or an extension of a character by itself. In the case that
is absolutely irreducible, this follows from the fact that
is topologically irreducible and admissible. If
is reducible and indecomposable, then
is also reducible and indecomposable and one needs to show that a nonzero morphism cannot be factorized by a strict quotient of
. We leave further discussion of these to the references.
Application to the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture
Let us now discuss the application of local-global compatibility to (a special case of) the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture, whose statement is as follows.
Let be an absolutely irreducible odd continuous p-adic Galois representation, unramified at all but finitely many places, and whose restriction to
is potentially semistable with distinct Hodge-Tate weights. Then the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture states that there exists some cuspidal eigenform
of weight
such that
is the twist of
(the Galois representation associated to
) by some character.
The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture is also often stated in the following manner. Let be as in the previous paragraph. Then
can be obtained as the subquotient of the etale cohomology of some variety. This statement in fact follows from the previous one, because if
is a Galois representation obtained from some cuspidal eigenform
of weight
, then it may be found as the subquotient of the etale cohomology of what is known as a Kuga-Sato variety.
Now let us discuss how local-global compatibility figures into the proof (due to Matthew Emerton) of a special case of the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. This special case is when and we have the restriction of the corresponding residual Galois representation
to
is absolutely irreducible, and the restriction of
to
is not isomorphic to a Galois representation of the form
twisted by a character for
, or
twisted by a character for
.
In this case it follows from the work of Böckle, Diamond-Flach-Guo, Khare-Wintenberger, and Kisin that is promodular. Then the local-global compatibility that we have discussed tells us that we have a closed injective map
. The condition of the restriction
being potentially semistable with distinct Hodge-Tate weights guarantees that
(here
is defined exactly the same as
except with
in place of
). This follows from the compatibility of the p-adic local Langlands correspondence and the “classical” local Langlands correspondence, which says that if
is potentially semistable with distinct Hodge-Tate weights
then we have the following isomorphism:
The closed injective map then tells us that, since
, we must have
as well. But we have the isomorphism
and the Galois representations that show up on the left hand side of this isomorphism are associated to cuspidal eigenforms of weights . This completes our sketch of the proof of the special case of the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture.
We have discussed here the ideas involved in Emerton’s proof of a special case of the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. There is also another proof due to Mark Kisin that makes use of a different approach, namely, ideas related to the Breuil-Mezard conjecture (a version of which was briefly discussed in Moduli Stacks of (phi, Gamma)-modules) and the method of “patching” (originally developed as part of the approach to proving Fermat’s Last Theorem). This approach will be discussed in future posts on this blog.
References:
Correspondance de Langlands p-adique, compatibilité local-global et applications by Christophe Breuil
Local-global compatibility in the p-adic Langlands programme for GL_2/Q by Matthew Emerton
A local-global compatibility conjecture in the p-adic Langlands programme for GL_2/Q by Matthew Emerton
Completed cohomology and the p-adic Langlands program by Matthew Emerton
The Breuil-Schneider conjecture, a survey by Claus M. Sorensen
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