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Zariski density of modular points in the Eisenstein case

Number Theory 2026-01-05 v2

Abstract

In this article, we study the Zariski closure of modular points in the two-dimensional universal deformation space when the residual Galois representation is reducible. Unlike the previous approaches in the residually irreducible case from Gouv\^ea-Mazur, B\"ockle and Allen, our method relies on local-global compatibility results, potential pro-modularity arguments and a non-ordinary finiteness result between the local deformation ring at pp and the global deformation ring. This allows us to construct sufficiently many non-ordinary regular de Rham points whose modularity is guaranteed by the recent progress on the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. Also, we will discuss some applications of our main results, including the equidimensionality of certain big Hecke algebras and big R=TR=\mathbb{T} theorems in the residually reducible case.

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@article{arxiv.2512.21249,
  title  = {Zariski density of modular points in the Eisenstein case},
  author = {Xinyao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.21249},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

42 pages. There is a gap in the proof of Proposition 3.3.7