Galois families of modular forms and application to weight one (Q2054293)

Families of modular forms and their attached Galois representations are of fundamental importance in many arithmetic questions. The authors introduce a new kind of families: for a given prime \(p\) they introduce Galois families of modular forms. They are a new kind of family coming from Galois representations of the absolute Galois groups of rational function fields over \(\mathbb Q\). Such a family can be taken to consist of classical holomorphic Hecke eigenforms or can be chosen to be made of Katz modular Hecke eigenforms defined over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_p\). ``Galois families are fundamentally different from other kinds of families of modular forms, such as Hida families. On the one hand, if we took the classical members of a Hida family, the field cut out by the mod \(p\) Galois representation would be the same in all cases. On the other hand, Galois families do not see \(p\)-adic deformations, so they miss the interesting information in Hida families. Galois families are rooted in field arithmetic and we see our paper as a step towards strengthening connections between field arithmetic and the automorphic theory.'' ``We exhibit some examples and provide an infinite Galois family of non-liftable weight one Katz modular eigenforms over \(\overline{\mathbb F}_p\) for \(p \in \{3,5,7,11\}\).''