Limiting measures of supersingularities

Publication date: 27 November 2019

Abstract: Let

p

be a prime number and let

k g e q 2

be an integer. In this article we study the semi-simple reductions modulo

p

of two-dimensional irreducible crystalline

p

-adic Galois representations with Hodge-Tate weights

0

and

k - 1

and large slopes. Berger--Li--Zhu proved by using the theory of

(v a r p h i, G a m m a)

-modules that this reduction is constant when the slope is larger than

l f l o o r f r a c k - 2 p - 1 f l o o r

. Recently, Bergdall--Levin improved this bound to

l f l o o r f r a c k - 1 p f l o o r

by using the theory of Kisin modules. In this article, under the extra assumptions

p > 3

and

p + 1 m i d k - 1

, we asymptotically improve this bound further to

l f l o o r f r a c k - 1 p + 1 f l o o r + l f l o o r l o g_{p} (k - 1) f l o o r

, which is off from the predicted optimal bound

a p p r o x f r a c k - 1 p + 1

only by a factor of

m a t h s f O l e f t (l o g_{p} k i g h t)

rather than by a factor that is linear in

k

. As a consequence we deduce a partial result towards a conjecture by Gouv^ea: that the measures of supersingularities of level

N p

oldforms tend to the zero measure on the interval

(f r a c 1 p + 1, f r a c p p + 1)

when

p

is coprime to

6 N

and

G a m m a_{0} (N)

-regular. It is very likely that our methods extend to the cases

p i n 2, 3

and

p + 1 m i d k - 1

as well, and therefore can be adapted to eliminate the extra assumptions

p > 3

and

p + 1 m i d k - 1

.

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