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Obstruction Criteria For Modular Deformation Problems, Jeffrey Hatley Jr
Obstruction Criteria For Modular Deformation Problems, Jeffrey Hatley Jr
Doctoral Dissertations
For a cuspidal newform f of weight k at least 3 and a prime p of the associated number field Kf, the deformation problem for its associated mod p Galois representation is unobstructed for all primes outside some finite set. Previous results gave an explicit bound on this finite set for f of squarefree level; we modify this bound and remove the squarefree hypothesis. We also show that if the p-adic deformation problem for f is unobstructed, then f is not congruent mod p to a newform of lower level.
Octahedral Extensions And Proofs Of Two Conjectures Of Wong, Kevin Ronald Childers
Octahedral Extensions And Proofs Of Two Conjectures Of Wong, Kevin Ronald Childers
Theses and Dissertations
Consider a non-Galois cubic extension K/Q ramified at a single prime p > 3. We show that if K is a subfield of an S_4-extension L/Q ramified only at p, we can determine the Artin conductor of the projective representation associated to L/Q, which is based on whether or not K/Q is totally real. We also show that the number of S_4-extensions of this type with K as a subfield is of the form 2^n - 1 for some n >= 0. If K/Q is totally real, n > 1. This proves two conjectures of Siman Wong.