Ihara's lemma for imaginary quadratic fields

An analogue over imaginary quadratic fields of a result in algebraic number theory known as Ihara's lemma is established. More precisely, we show that for a prime ideal P of the ring of integers of an imaginary quadratic field F, the kernel of the sum of the two standard P-degeneracy maps between the cuspidal sheaf cohomology H^1_!(X_0, M_0)^2 --> H^1_!(X_1, M_1) is Eisenstein. Here X_0 and X_1 are analogues over F of the modular curves X_0(N) and X_0(Np), respectively. To prove our theorem we use the method of modular symbols and the congruence subgroup property for the group SL(2) which is due to Serre.Comment: 10 page

The Maass space for U(2,2) and the Bloch-Kato conjecture for the symmetric square motive of a modular form

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On deformation rings of residually reducible Galois representations and R=T theorems

We study the crystalline universal deformation ring R (and its ideal of reducibility I) of a mod p Galois representation rho_0 of dimension n whose semisimplification is the direct sum of two absolutely irreducible mutually non-isomorphic constituents rho_1 and rho_2. Under some assumptions on Selmer groups associated with rho_1 and rho_2 we show that R/I is cyclic and often finite. Using ideas and results of (but somewhat different assumptions from) Bellaiche and Chenevier we prove that I is principal for essentially self-dual representations and deduce statements about the structure of R. Using a new commutative algebra criterion we show that given enough information on the Hecke side one gets an R=T-theorem. We then apply the technique to modularity problems for 2-dimensional representations over an imaginary quadratic field and a 4-dimensional representation over the rationals.Comment: 32 page