Towards a statement of the S-adic conjecture through examples

The $S$-adic conjecture claims that there exists a condition $C$ such that a sequence has a sub-linear complexity if and only if it is an $S$-adic sequence satisfying Condition $C$ for some finite set $S$ of morphisms. We present an overview of the factor complexity of $S$-adic sequences and we give some examples that either illustrate some interesting properties or that are counter-examples to what could be believed to be "a good Condition $C$".Comment: 2

Towards a theory of local Shimura varieties

This is a survey article that advertizes the idea that there should exist a theory of p-adic local analogues of Shimura varieties. Prime examples are the towers of rigid-analytic spaces defined by Rapoport-Zink spaces, and we also review their theory in the light of this idea. We also discuss conjectures on the $\ell$-adic cohomology of local Shimura varieties.Comment: 53 page

Height one specializations of Selmer groups

We provide applications to studying the behavior of Selmer groups under specialization. We consider Selmer groups associated to four dimensional Galois representations coming from (i) the tensor product of two cuspidal Hida families $F$ and $G$, (ii) its cyclotomic deformation, (iii) the tensor product of a cusp form $f$ and the Hida family $G$, where $f$ is a classical specialization of $F$ with weight $k \geq 2$. We prove control theorems to relate (a) the Selmer group associated to the tensor product of Hida families $F$ and $G$ to the Selmer group associated to its cyclotomic deformation and (b) the Selmer group associated to the tensor product of $f$ and $G$ to the Selmer group associated to the tensor product of $F$ and $G$. On the analytic side of the main conjectures, Hida has constructed one variable, two variable and three variable Rankin-Selberg $p$-adic $L$-functions. Our specialization results enable us to verify that Hida's results relating (a) the two variable $p$-adic $L$-function to the three variable $p$-adic $L$-function and (b) the one variable $p$-adic $L$-function to the two variable $p$-adic $L$-function and our control theorems for Selmer groups are completely consistent with the main conjectures.Comment: Incorporated changes suggested by the referee. Accepted for publication in Annales de l'Institut Fourie