Ranks of Selmer groups in an analytic family
Number Theory
2009-06-09 v1
Abstract
We study the variation of the dimension of the Bloch-Kato Selmer group of a p-adic Galois representation of a number field that varies in a refined family. We show that, if one restricts ourselves to representations that are, at every place dividing , crystalline, non-critically refined, and with a fixed number of non-negative Hodge-Tate weights, then the dimension of the Selmer group varies essentially lower-semi-continuously. This allows to prove lower bounds for Selmer groups "by continuity", in particular to prove some predictions of the conjecture of Bloch-Kato for modular forms.
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@article{arxiv.0906.1275,
title = {Ranks of Selmer groups in an analytic family},
author = {Joel Bellaiche},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.1275},
year = {2009}
}
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31 pages