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Certification of modular Galois representations

Number Theory 2016-03-31 v6

Abstract

We show how the output of the algorithm to compute modular Galois representations described in our previous article can be certified. We have used this process to compute certified tables of such Galois representations obtained thanks to an improved version of this algorithm, including representations modulo primes up to 31 and representations attached to a newform with non-rational (but of course algebraic) coefficients, which had never been done before. These computations take place in the Jacobian of modular curves of genus up to 26. The resulting data are available on the author's webpage, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/mascot/galreps.

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@article{arxiv.1312.6418,
  title  = {Certification of modular Galois representations},
  author = {Nicolas Mascot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6418},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Revision as suggested by anonymous referee. The modifications include a more detailed analysis of the method to certify that a polynomial has Galois group PGL(2,l), a simpler but less efficient method to certify that a polynomial has Galois group GL(2,l)/Sr, and the removal of the tables, which are now available on the author's webpage. Comments welcome

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