Dihedral universal deformations

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Abstract: This article deals with universal deformations of dihedral representations with a particular focus on the question when the universal deformation is dihedral. Results are obtained in three settings: (1) representation theory, (2) algebraic number theory, (3) modularity. As to (1), we prove that the universal deformation is dihedral if all infinitesimal deformations are dihedral. Concerning (2) in the setting of Galois representations of number fields, we give sufficient conditions to ensure that the universal deformation relatively unramified outside a finite set of primes is dihedral, and discuss in how far these conditions are necessary. As side-results, we obtain cases of the unramified Fontaine-Mazur conjecture, and in many cases positively answer a question of Greenberg and Coleman on the splitting behaviour at p of p-adic Galois representations attached to newforms. As to (3), we prove a modularity theorem of the form `R=T' for parallel weight one Hilbert modular forms for cases when the minimal universal deformation is dihedral.


A continuous absolutely irreducible representation \(\overline{\rho}: G \rightarrow \text{GL}_2(\mathbb{F})\) is called dihedral if it is induced from a character, where \(G\) is a profinite group and \(\mathbb{F}\) is a finite field of characteristic \(p\). Consider a deformation \(\rho: G \rightarrow \text{GL}_2(R)\) of \(\rho\) for any complete local Noetherian algebra \(R\) over \(W(\mathbb{F})\), the ring of Witt vectors of \(\mathbb{F}\), with residue field \(\mathbb{F}\). In the present paper, the authors give a characterisation of dihedral representations by Frattini quotients and show that the universal deformation of \(\overline{\rho}\) is dihedral if and only if all infinitesimal deformations are dihedral. They give new evidence towards Boston's strengthening of the unramified Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. In particular, they present some examples of irreducible dihedral representations \(\overline{\rho}: G \rightarrow \text{GL}_2(\mathbb{F})\) and determine whether their universal deformation relatively unramified outside a finite set \(S\) is dihedral or not.



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