Distinguishing Galois representations by their normalized traces
Number Theory
2016-10-03 v1
Abstract
Suppose and are two pure Galois representations of the absolute Galois group of a number field of weights and respectively, having equal normalized Frobenius traces and at a set of primes of with positive upper density. Assume further that the algebraic monodromy group of is connected and the repesentation is absolutely irreducible. We prove that and are twists of each other by power of a Tate twist times a character of finite order. We apply this to modular forms and deduce a result proved by Murty and Pujahari.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.09724,
title = {Distinguishing Galois representations by their normalized traces},
author = {Vijay M. Patankar and C. S. Rajan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.09724},
year = {2016}
}