Uniform behavior of families of Galois representations on Siegel modular forms and the endoscopy conjecture (Q1016739)

Let \(f\) be a genus \(2\) Siegel cuspidal Hecke eigenform of weight \(k>3\) and level \(N\), having multiplicity one, such that the attached Galois representations \(\rho_{f,\lambda}\) are semistable. Let \(l_0\) be a prime number which does not divide \(N\), and let \(\lambda_0 | l_0\). The author proves that if the representation \(\rho_{f,\lambda_0}\) is reducible, then the representations \(\rho_{f,\lambda}\) are reducible for every \(\lambda\). If this happens, then \(f\) is of Saito-Kurokawa type or \(f\) is endoscopic.