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Locally induced Galois representations with exceptional residual images

Number Theory 2026-04-15 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we classify all continuous Galois representations ρ:Gal(Q/Q)GL2(Qp)\rho:\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbf{Q}}/\mathbf{Q})\to \mathrm{GL}_2(\overline{\mathbf{Q}}_p) which are unramified outside {p,}\{p,\infty\} and locally induced at pp, under the assumption that ρ\overline{\rho} is exceptional, that is, has image of order prime to pp. We prove two results. If ff is a level one cuspidal eigenform and one of the pp-adic Galois representations ρf\rho_f associated to ff has exceptional residual image, then ρf\rho_f is not locally induced and ap(f)0a_p(f)\neq 0. If ρ\rho is locally induced at pp and with exceptional residual image, and furthermore certain subfields of the fixed field of the kernel of ρ\overline{\rho} are assumed to have class numbers prime to pp, then ρ\rho has finite image up to a twist.

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@article{arxiv.2205.11562,
  title  = {Locally induced Galois representations with exceptional residual images},
  author = {Chengyang Bao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.11562},
  year   = {2026}
}

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published version with minor revisions following the referee report