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An irreducibility criterion for group representations, with arithmetic applications

Number Theory 2010-02-17 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

We prove a criterion for the irreducibility of an integral group representation \rho over the fraction field of a noetherian domain R in terms of suitably defined reductions of \rho at prime ideals of R. As applications, we give irreducibility results for universal deformations of residual representations, with a special attention to universal deformations of residual Galois representations associated with modular forms of weight at least 2.

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@article{arxiv.1002.3150,
  title  = {An irreducibility criterion for group representations, with arithmetic applications},
  author = {M. Longo and S. Vigni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3150},
  year   = {2010}
}

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11 pages

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