Galois representations for general symplectic groups (Q2693141)

In the present paper, the authors prove the existence of \(\mathrm{GSpin}\)-valued Galois representations corresponding to cohomological cuspidal automorphic representations of general symplectic groups over totally real number fields under the local hypothesis that there is a Steinberg component. These groups are interesting for two reasons. Firstly, they naturally occur in the moduli spaces of polarized abelian varieties and their automorphic or Galois representations have been useful for arithmetic applications. Secondly, new phenomena come from the nature of the dual group of a general symplectic group: e.g. faithful representations have large dimensions and locally conjugate representations may not be globally conjugate. In particular, when \(n=3\) and the totally real field is \(\mathbb{Q}\), they construct a rank seven motive over \(\mathbb{Q}\) with Galois group of exceptional type \(G_2\) in the cohomology of Siegel modular varieties of genus three. Hence, they get another proof affirmatively answering a question of Serre in the case of \(G_2\). They also obtain some new instances of the Buzzard-Gee conjecture for a group of type \(G_2\). This shows that a certain Hilbert modular subvariety of the Siegel modular variety should give rise to the cohomology class for the complement of the rank seven motive of type \(G_2\) in the rank eight motive cut out by a cuspidal automorphic representation, as predicted by the Tate conjecture.