Time: 15:00-16:00 April 18, 2025 (Friday)
Venue: MCM110
Title: Trivial locus of l-adic local system
Abstract: We will discuss and provide evidence for the following consequence of the unramified Fontaine-Mazur conjecture. Let X be a variety over a number field and V a l-adic local system on X. If there exists a closed point x on X such that the pull-back x^*V is finite (viz the corresponding Galois rep has finite image) then V itself is finite. We obtain partial results, using a mix of (variational) p-adic Hodge theory and companions plus a "point-wise to global" principle for the properties of being unramified and tamely ramified. This is a joint work with Akio Tamagawa.
