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Some instances of modularity for residually reducible representations in the mixed case

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Let FF be a totally real field, abelian over \Q, in which an odd prime pp splits completely, and let ρ:G_F\to\GL_2(\overline\Q_p) be an odd irreducible representation which is de Rham with distinct Hodge–Tate weights at the places above pp and whose residual representation is reducible. We consider the mixed case of the Fontaine–Mazur conjecture, in which ρρ is reducible at some places above pp and irreducible at the others. This case is not covered by the work of Pan and Zhang. We prove some instances of modularity in this situation. Our main result is that ρρ is modular if it is non-split at every place above pp where it is reducible, by combining Zhang's pro-modularity theorem with a classicality criterion based on Emerton's ordinary parts. Together with a theorem of Zhao on local indecomposability, this gives the modularity of the λλ-adic representations attached to abelian varieties of \GL_2-type in the mixed case, and, using a result of Snowden, of potentially modular representations of parallel weight two under a mild additional condition. It also gives the modularity of representations whose local type at every place above pp is of discrete series type, and, through a member of the compatible system with interchanged Hodge-Tate weights, of potentially modular representations of weight (2,k)(2,k) over real quadratic fields with Steinberg type at one place above pp, under conditions on that member.

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. 11F80, 11F33.

Key words and phrases. Fontaine–Mazur conjecture.

Introduction

The mixed case

Let FF be a totally real number field, pp a prime and ρ:GF→GL2(Q‾p)\rho:G_F \to\mathrm{GL}_2(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_p) a continuous irreducible representation, unramified outside finitely many primes. The Fontaine–Mazur conjecture predicts that if ρ\rho is odd and ρ∣GFv\rho|_{G_{F_v}} is de Rham with distinct Hodge–Tate weights for every v∣pv \mid p, then ρ\rho is modular, i.e. it arises from a regular algebraic cuspidal automorphic representation of GL2(AF)\mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbb{A}_F).

When the residual representation ρˉ\bar{\rho} is reducible, the first general results are due to Skinner and Wiles [29], under the assumption that ρ\rho is ordinary at all places above pp. Pan [22] introduced a method based on the completed cohomology of definite quaternion algebras and Paškūnas’ theory of blocks [23], which treats the case where FF is abelian over Q\mathbb{Q}, pp splits completely in FF and ρ∣GFv\rho|_{G_{F_v}} is irreducible for every v∣pv \mid p. Zhang [32] removed the remaining exceptional residual configuration at p=3p=3, using the results of Paškūnas–Tung [24]. The mixed case, in which ρ∣GFv\rho|_{G_{F_v}} is reducible at some places v∣pv \mid p and irreducible at the others, is not covered by these works. In this paper we prove some instances of modularity in the mixed case.

Setting

Throughout, pp is an odd prime and FF is a totally real field, abelian over Q\mathbb{Q}, in which pp splits completely, so that Fv=QpF_v=\mathbb{Q}_p for every v∣pv \mid p. Let E/QpE/\mathbb{Q}_p be a finite extension with ring of integers O\mathcal{O} and residue field F\mathbb{F}, and let

ρ:GF⟶GL2(E)\rho:G_F \longrightarrow\mathrm{GL}_2(E)

be a continuous, absolutely irreducible, odd representation, unramified outside finitely many places. We write ρv=ρ∣GFv\rho_v=\rho|_{G_{F_v}}, Σp\Sigma_p for the set of places of FF above pp, and we fix a partition Σp=Σn⊔Σo\Sigma_p=\Sigma_n\sqcup\Sigma_o. We consider the following conditions.

(N) For v∈Σnv\in\Sigma_n, ρv\rho_v is irreducible and de Rham with distinct Hodge–Tate weights.

(O) For v∈Σov\in\Sigma_o, ρv\rho_v is reducible and de Rham with distinct Hodge–Tate weights.

(R) ρˉss=χˉ1⊕χˉ2\bar{\rho}^{\mathrm{ss}}=\bar{\chi}_1\oplus\bar{\chi}_2 for characters χˉi:GF→F×\bar{\chi}_i:G_F\to\mathbb{F}^{\times}, the character χˉ=χˉ1χˉ2−1\bar{\chi}=\bar{\chi}_1\bar{\chi}_2^{-1} extends to a character of GQG_{\mathbb{Q}}, and χˉ∣GFv≠1\bar{\chi}|_{G_{F_v}}\ne1 for every v∈Σpv\in\Sigma_p.

Here and below we freely extend scalars: a local representation ρv\rho_v which is irreducible but not absolutely irreducible becomes reducible over a finite extension of EE, so after enlarging EE each ρv\rho_v is either reducible or absolutely irreducible, and irreducible means absolutely irreducible. Condition (R) does not depend on the order of χˉ1,χˉ2\bar{\chi}_1,\bar{\chi}_2. Under (O), the two Jordan–Hölder characters of ρv\rho_v have distinct Hodge–Tate numbers. By Bloch–Kato theory (Lemma 2.1), the one with smaller Hodge–Tate number, in the convention HT(ε)=−1\mathrm{HT}(\varepsilon)=-1, is always a subcharacter of ρv\rho_v, and it is the only one if ρv\rho_v is non-split. We call it the classical character of ρv\rho_v; it is the subcharacter which occurs for ordinary modular forms.

The non-split case

Our first result treats the case where ρ\rho is non-split at all the places where it is reducible.

Theorem A. Assume (N), (O) and (R), and that ρv\rho_v is non-split for every v∈Σov\in\Sigma_o. Then ρ\rho is modular.

When Σo=∅\Sigma_o=\varnothing this is the theorem of Pan and Zhang, and when Σn=∅\Sigma_n=\varnothing it is covered by the work of Skinner–Wiles in parallel weight, and in general by [22 Theorem 5.1.2]; the new content is the mixed case. No condition is imposed on the Hodge–Tate weights beyond (N) and (O); in particular they need not be parallel. The hypothesis that ρv\rho_v is non-split for v∈Σov\in\Sigma_o is the natural one for our classicality criterion: if ρv\rho_v is split, the method only shows that one of its two subcharacters occurs in the relevant Hida family, and the non-classical one gives no classical vectors.

We should be clear about what is new in the proof of Theorem A. The pro-modularity input is [32 Theorem 5.5.1] (for p≥5p\geq5, the corresponding result of Pan [22]), applied verbatim: its proof does not use any local condition at pp, so it applies in the mixed case, although this is not stated there. The ingredients of the classicality step are standard as well: Emerton’s ordinary parts and his adjunction formula [14, 15], the local–global compatibility of Pan and Zhang for Paškūnas blocks [22, 32], the results of Breuil–Emerton on locally algebraic vectors in ordinary principal series [6], and those of Colmez–Dospinescu–Paškūnas at the non-ordinary places [7]. The only new point is to combine them, taking ordinary parts only at the places of Σo\Sigma_o; this realizes, at the level of points, the mixture of completed cohomology and Hida families suggested by Pan [22 Remark 8.0.3], and we do not claim any originality for it. Moreover, the non-split hypothesis avoids precisely the genuine difficulty of the mixed case, namely showing that the classical character occurs. The main interest of the paper lies instead in the applications of Theorem A given in § 5 and § 6, all the more so since they will be used to prove new modularity results that do not depend on any extension, not yet available, of Pan’s theorem to the mixed case (see Remark 1.2).

Remark 1.1. Under the hypothesis of potential modularity, which is available in the applications we have in mind (Remark 1.2), Greenberg’s question is exactly what is needed to deduce from Theorem A the modularity of ρ\rho in the mixed case in general, that is, without assuming that ρv\rho_v is non-split for v∈Σov\in\Sigma_o. Indeed, if ρ\rho is induced from a character θ\theta of GKG_K for a quadratic extension K/FK/F, then it is easy to see that it is modular. Assume that ρ\rho is not induced, and that ρ∣GW\rho|_{G_W} is modular for a totally real Galois extension W/FW/F. Then it is not hard to see that ρ∣GW\rho|_{G_W} is not induced either, so it corresponds to a Hilbert newform with no complex multiplication. A question of Greenberg (see [35]) predicts that the Galois representation attached to such a Hilbert eigenform is non-split at every place above pp at which it is ordinary. Applied to ρ∣GW\rho|_{G_W} at a place ww above v∈Σov\in\Sigma_o, it would give that ρv\rho_v is non-split, so that Theorem A applies. Thus, under potential modularity, a positive answer to Greenberg’s question for Hilbert newforms would, together with Theorem A, give the modularity of ρ\rho in the mixed case in general. Potential modularity is essential here: without it, the Fontaine–Mazur conjecture together with Greenberg’s question would also predict that ρv\rho_v is never split for v∈Σov\in\Sigma_o outside the CM case, but modularity is precisely what we want to prove, so we cannot assume it, whereas potential modularity is a hypothesis that is available in applications. This explains why several applications of Theorem A can be found (see § 5 and § 6), and the more cases of Greenberg’s question are settled, the more general this result becomes.

Three applications of Theorem A

Theorem A also applies whenever the local types at the places above pp for each ρv\rho_v to be either irreducible or reducible and non-split. Say that ρv\rho_v is of discrete series type if its Frobenius-semisimple Weil–Deligne representation is indecomposable, that is, either irreducible (supercuspidal type) or a twist of the Steinberg one (Steinberg type, i.e. ρv\rho_v is a twist of a semistable non-crystalline representation). In the supercuspidal case ρv\rho_v is irreducible, and in the Steinberg case ρv\rho_v is reducible and non-split if its Hodge–Tate numbers differ by 1, and irreducible otherwise (Lemma 5.1). Hence ρ\rho is modular if it satisfies (R) and, for every v∈Σpv\in\Sigma_p, ρv\rho_v has distinct Hodge–Tate numbers and is of discrete series type (Corollary 5.3); over a real quadratic field it suffices that the Hodge–Tate numbers differ by 1 at both places above pp and that ρ\rho is of Steinberg type at one of them (Corollary 5.4). In non-parallel weight (2,k)(2,k) over a real quadratic field, with Steinberg type at one of the two places above pp and under potential modularity, we pass to a conjugate member ρ′\rho' of the compatible system containing ρ\rho, in which the Hodge–Tate numbers at the two places are interchanged. Theorem 5.5 reduces the modularity of ρ\rho either to a residually reducible case covered by Theorem A and [22 Theorem 5.1.2], or to a residually irreducible case covered by the modularity lifting theorems of Kisin, Hu–Tan and Tung.

Abelian varieties of GL2_2-type

Theorem A applies to abelian varieties. Let A/FA/F be an abelian variety of GL2_2-type: there is a number field K⊂End⁡F(A)⊗QK \subset\operatorname{End}_F(A) \otimes\mathbb{Q} with [K:Q]=dim⁡A[K:\mathbb{Q}] = \dim A. For a prime λ\lambda of KK above pp, the λ\lambda-adic Tate module of AA gives a representation

ρA,λ:GF⟶GL⁡2(Kλ).\rho_{A,\lambda}:G_F \longrightarrow\operatorname{GL}_2(K_\lambda).

Theorem B. Assume that ρA,λ\rho_{A,\lambda} satisfies (R). Then ρA,λ\rho_{A,\lambda} is modular: it arises from a cuspidal Hilbert eigenform of parallel weight 2 over FF.

No irreducibility assumption is needed: since FF is totally real, ρA,λ\rho_{A,\lambda} is always absolutely irreducible, by a well-known argument of Ribet based on purity (Lemma 6.2). No assumption is made on the reduction of AA at the places above pp. The places v∣pv \mid p where ρA,λ\rho_{A,\lambda} is reducible (after extending scalars) form the set Σo\Sigma_{\mathrm{o}}, and the others the set Σn\Sigma_{\mathrm{n}}. If AA has complex multiplication over Q\mathbb{Q}, modularity follows from the theory of complex multiplication and the automorphic induction of Hecke characters. Otherwise, a theorem of Zhao [42 Theorem 5.2], which extends a theorem of Hida [36], shows that ρA,λ∣GFv\rho_{A,\lambda}|_{G_{F_v}} is non-split for every v∈Σov \in\Sigma_{\mathrm{o}}, and Theorem A applies.

As a consequence, we obtain in § 6.4 the modularity of potentially modular representations of parallel weight 2 in the mixed case (Theorem B′'), under the condition that either [F:Q][F:\mathbb{Q}] is odd or the Weil–Deligne representation of ρ\rho at some finite place (possibly above pp) is indecomposable, i.e. corresponds to a discrete series representation. Such a representation lies in a strongly compatible system, by the descent construction of [10] and of the proof of [2 Theorem 5.5.1], and under this condition a result of Snowden [44], applied to a member of the system with large residual image, shows that it comes from an abelian variety of GL2_2-type over FF, so that Theorem B applies.

Remark 1.2. Although the results of the present paper do not settle the mixed case of Pan’s theorem in general, they are sufficient for significant applications to new modularity results. In particular, two of the results of this paper, Theorem B′' and Corollary 5.3, are already used in [9]. In such applications, and more generally in the propagation of modularity along safe chains of congruences, the hypothesis of potential modularity in Theorems B′' and 5.5 is available whenever the construction already supplies a potentially modular compatible system, as was the case in the proofs of Serre’s modularity conjecture over Q\mathbb{Q} by Khare–Wintenberger [19, 20] and by the author [11]. In inductive arguments of this kind, the residual hypotheses of Theorem 5.5(c) on the entangled representation ρ′\rho' are also provided by the induction, since the invariants of ρ′\rho' are as small as those of ρ\rho (see Remark 5.6).

Strategy

After a solvable base change F1/FF_1/F provided by Zhang, the pro-modularity theorem of [32] shows that ρ∣GF1\rho|_{G_{F_1}} comes from a maximal ideal p\mathfrak{p} of a big Hecke algebra acting on the completed cohomology SS of a definite quaternion algebra. Its proof does not use any local condition at pp. The task is to show that this point is classical.

Ordinary parts and classicality. We apply Emerton’s functor of ordinary parts [14, 15] to SS, with respect to the Borel subgroup at the places of F1F_1 above Σo\Sigma_{\mathrm{o}} only. The resulting space SoS^{\mathrm{o}} is completed cohomology at the places above Σn\Sigma_{\mathrm{n}} and a Hida family at the places above Σo\Sigma_{\mathrm{o}}, and its Hecke algebra To\mathbb{T}^{\mathrm{o}} carries characters ψv,1\psi_{v,1} given by the diamond operators. We show that the pseudo-representation over To\mathbb{T}^{\mathrm{o}} is ψv,1\psi_{v,1}-ordinary (Lemma 3.4); since the central character need not be locally constant at pp, this is first proved after a twist by a continuous character and then transported back. Starting from an irreducible subrepresentation of the pp-eigenspace of SS, Emerton’s adjunction produces ordinary eigenvectors on which the torus acts through a character whose first component is a subcharacter of ρ∣GF1,v\rho|_{G_{F_{1,v}}} (Proposition 4.1). If it is the classical character, the corresponding principal series and the non-ordinary local factors have dense locally algebraic vectors, and the adjunction map produces classical forms (Theorem 4.2). If ρv\rho_v is non-split, its only subcharacter is the classical one; this proves Theorem A.

Abelian varieties. For Theorem B, the main additional input is the local indecomposability theorem of Hida and Zhao, which is a statement about abelian varieties and does not use modularity; the CM case is classical. Theorem B′ follows from Theorem B, since by a result of Snowden, applied to a suitable member of the compatible system containing ρ\rho, the representations it concerns come from abelian varieties of GL2\mathrm{GL}_2-type.

Organisation

Section 2 contains local results on reducible representations of GQpG_{\mathbb{Q}_p}. In Section 3 we recall completed cohomology and Paškūnas’ blocks, and develop the ordinary parts at the ordinary places. Section 4 contains the local–global compatibility at ordinary points, the classicality criterion, the pro-modularity input, and the proof of Theorem A. Section 5 contains three applications of Theorem A: to representations of discrete series type at all places above pp (Corollary 5.3), to representations of parallel weight 2 over real quadratic fields with Steinberg type at one place above pp (Corollary 5.4), and, through entangled pairs, to representations of weight (2,k)(2,k) (Theorem 5.5). Section 6 is devoted to abelian varieties: it contains the proof of Theorem B and of its consequence Theorem B′ for potentially modular representations of parallel weight 2.

Acknowledgments

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