A family of Calabi-Yau varieties and potential automorphy. II. (Q533368)

Summary: We prove new potential modularity theorems for \(n\)-dimensional essentially self-dual \(l\)-adic representations of the absolute Galois group of a totally real field. Most notably, in the ordinary case we prove quite a general result. Our results suffice to show that all the symmetric powers of any non-CM, holomorphic, cuspidal, elliptic modular newform of weight greater than one are potentially cuspidal automorphic. This in turns proves the Sato-Tate conjecture for such forms. (In passing we also note that the Sato-Tate conjecture can now be proved for any elliptic curve over a totally real field.) Part I see Ann. Math. (2) 171, No. 2, 779--813 (2010; Zbl 1263.11061).