Monthly Archives: March 2017

Pseudo-representations and the Eisenstein Ideal

Preston Wake is in town, and on Tuesday he gave a talk on his recent joint work with Carl Wang Erickson. Many years ago, Matt and I studied Mazur’s Eisenstein Ideal paper from the perspective of Galois deformation rings. Using … Continue reading

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Erdős Number 3!

My chances at this point of writing a paper with Erdős are probably very small. My chances of writing a paper with one of Erdős’ collaborators is also quite small. I had assumed that I had not even met — … Continue reading

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Film Criticism

You know that feeling you get when you want to understand the precise conjectural relationship between the cohomology of arithmetic varieties and Galois representations? I finally get it. Du musst Caligari werden! Oh, and if you think I’m crazy, it’s … Continue reading

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A non-liftable weight one form modulo p^2

I once idly asked RLT (around 2004ish) whether one could use Buzzard-Taylor arguments to prove that any representation: \(\rho: \mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbf{Q}}/\mathbf{Q}) \rightarrow \mathrm{GL}_2(\mathbf{Z}/p^2 \mathbf{Z})\) which was unramified at p and residually irreducible (and modular) was itself modular (in the Katz sense). … Continue reading

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Report from MSRI and Berkeley

Having attended last Friday’s academic sponsors’ day at MSRI, I can provide a little more context concerning the issues expressed last time. But first, it’s time for the current edition of NAME AND SHAME: There are currently 105 universities which … Continue reading

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