Tag Archives: Eisenstein Ideal

The last seven words of Kedlaya-Medvedovsky

New paper by my student Noah Taylor! It addresses some conjectures raised by Kedlaya and Medvedovsky in this paper. Let \(\mathbf{T}\) denote the Hecke algebra acting on modular forms of weight two and prime level \(N\) generated by Hecke operators … Continue reading

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Schaefer and Stubley on Class Groups

I talked previously about work of Wake and Wang-Erickson on deformations of Eisenstein residual representations. In that post, I also mentioned a paper of Emmanuel Lecouturier who has also proved some very interesting theorems. Today, I wanted to talk about … Continue reading

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Pseudo-representations and the Eisenstein Ideal

Preston Wake is in town, and on Tuesday he gave a talk on his recent joint work with Carl Wang Erickson. Many years ago, Matt and I studied Mazur’s Eisenstein Ideal paper from the perspective of Galois deformation rings. Using … Continue reading

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