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Serre weights and the Breuil-M\'{e}zard conjecture for modular forms

Number Theory 2020-04-17 v1

Abstract

Serre's strong conjecture, now a theorem of Khare and Wintenberger, states that every two-dimensional continuous, odd, irreducible mod pp Galois representation ρ\rho arises from a modular form of a specific minimal weight k(ρ)k(\rho), level N(ρ)N(\rho) and character ϵ(ρ)\epsilon(\rho). In this short paper we show that the minimal weight k(ρ)k(\rho) is equal to a notion of minimal weight inspired by the recipe for weights introduced by Buzzard, Diamond and Jarvis. Moreover, using the Breuil-M\'{e}zard conjecture we show that both weight recipes are equal to the smallest k2k \geq 2 such that ρ\rho has a crystalline lift of Hodge-Tate type (0,k1)(0,k-1).

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@article{arxiv.2004.07587,
  title  = {Serre weights and the Breuil-M\'{e}zard conjecture for modular forms},
  author = {Hanneke Wiersema},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.07587},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages

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