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Deforming global Galois representations

 

Ravi Ramakrishna

(Cornell University)
 
 

Brandeis

317 Goldsmith

4:30 p.m., Thursday, September 16, 1999


 
 
Abstract:   Serre has conjectured that mod p Galois representations "come from" modular forms.  A special case of a conjecture of Fontaine and Mazur can be viewed as a characteristic zero analog of Serre's conjecture.  We will explain these conjectures and work relating them. 


 
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