On the Definition of Transfer Factors.
Let be a CM number field, an odd prime totally split in , and let be the -adic analytic space parameterizing the isomorphism classes of -dimensional semisimple -adic representations of satisfying a selfduality condition “of type ”. We study an analogue of the infinite fern of Gouvêa-Mazur in this context and show that each irreducible component of the Zariski-closure of the modular points in has dimension at least . As important steps, and in any rank, we prove that any first order...
The purpose of this work is to carry out the first step in our four-step program towards the main conjecture for by the method of Eisenstein congruence on , where is an imaginary quadratic field. We construct a -adic family of ordinary Eisenstein series on the group of unitary similitudes with the optimal constant term which is basically the product of the Kubota-Leopodlt -adic -function and a -adic -function for . This construction also provides a different point of view of -adic...