Remarks on the symmetric powers of cusp forms on GL(2)

In this paper we prove the following conditional result: Let F be a number field, and pi a cusp form on GL(2)/F which is not solvable polyhedral. Assume that all the symmetric powers sym^m(pi) are modular, i.e., define automorphic forms on GL(m+1)/F. If sym^6(pi) is cuspidal, then all the symmetric powers are cuspidal, for all m. Moreover, sym^6(pi) is Eisenteinian iff sym^5(pi) is an abelian twist of the functorial product of pi with the symmetric square of a cusp form pi' on GL(2)/F.Comment: A sentence has been modified in the Introduction. It has nothing to do with the main result of the pape

Modular generalized Springer correspondence: an overview

This is an overview of our series of papers on the modular generalized Springer correspondence. It is an expansion of a lecture given by the second author in the Fifth Conference of the Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum, Sanya, December 2014, as part of the Master Lecture `Algebraic Groups and their Representations' Workshop honouring G. Lusztig. The material that has not appeared in print before includes some discussion of the motivating idea of modular character sheaves, and heuristic remarks about geometric functors of parabolic induction and restriction.Comment: 19 pages. Version 2 includes more examples and tables in Section

On the weights of mod pp Hilbert modular forms

We prove many cases of a conjecture of Buzzard, Diamond and Jarvis on the possible weights of mod $p$ Hilbert modular forms, by making use of modularity lifting theorems and computations in $p$-adic Hodge theory.Comment: 34 pages. Essentially final version, to appear in Inventiones mathematicae. This version does not incorporate any minor changes (e.g. typographical changes) made in proo