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Let $f$ be a primitive cusp form of weight at least 2, and let ${\rho }_f$ be the $p$-adic Galois representation attached to $f$. If $f$ is $p$-ordinary, then it is known that the restriction of ${\rho }_f$ to a decomposition group at $p$ is “upper triangular”. If in addition $f$ has CM, then this representation is even “diagonal”. In this paper we provide evidence for the converse. More precisely, we show that the local Galois representation is not diagonal, for all except possibly finitely many of the arithmetic members of a non-CM...

Let $E$ and $f$ be an Eisenstein series and a cusp form, respectively, of the same weight $k\ge 2$ and of the same level $N$, both eigenfunctions of the Hecke operators, and both normalized so that $a_1\left(f\right)=a_1\left(E\right)=1$. The main result we prove is that when $E$ and $f$ are congruent mod a prime $𝔭$ (which we take in this paper to be a prime of $\overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ lying over a rational prime $p\>2$), the algebraic parts of the special values $L(E,\chi ,j)$ and $L(f,\chi ,j)$ satisfy congruences mod the same prime. More explicitly, we prove that, under certain conditions, ...