Moduli Stacks of Étale (ϕ, Γ)-Modules and the Existence of Crystalline Lifts - (Annals of Mathematics Studies) (Paperback)

About the Book

"Motivated by the p-adic Langlands program, this book constructs stacks that algebraize Mazur's formal deformation rings of local Galois representations. More precisely, it constructs Noetherian formal algebraic stacks over Spf Zp that parameterize âetale ([phi], [Gamma])-modules; the formal completions of these stacks at points in their special fibres recover the universal deformation rings of local Galois representations. Matthew Emerton and Toby Gee use these stacks to show that all mod p representations of the absolute Galois group of a p-adic local field lift to characteristic zero, and indeed admit crystalline lifts. They explicitly describe the irreducible components of the underlying reduced substacks and discuss the relationship between the geometry of these stacks and the Breuil-Mâezard conjecture. Along the way, they prove a number of foundational results in p-adic Hodge theory that may be of independent interest"--

Book Synopsis

A foundational account of a new construction in the p-adic Langlands correspondence

Motivated by the p-adic Langlands program, this book constructs stacks that algebraize Mazur's formal deformation rings of local Galois representations. More precisely, it constructs Noetherian formal algebraic stacks over Spf Zp that parameterize étale (ϕ, Γ)-modules; the formal completions of these stacks at points in their special fibres recover the universal deformation rings of local Galois representations. These stacks are then used to show that all mod p representations of the absolute Galois group of a p-adic local field lift to characteristic zero, and indeed admit crystalline lifts. The book explicitly describes the irreducible components of the underlying reduced substacks and discusses the relationship between the geometry of these stacks and the Breuil-Mézard conjecture. Along the way, it proves a number of foundational results in p-adic Hodge theory that may be of independent interest.

Review Quotes

"A foundational and seminal work."---Eran Assaf, MathSciNet

About the Author

Matthew Emerton is professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago. Toby Gee is professor of mathematics at Imperial College London.