Florence's lifting conjecture for Borel representations

Let pp be a prime number, let FF be a field containing a primitive p2p^2-th root of unity, and let n1n\geq 1 be an integer. Let ΓF\Gamma_F denote the absolute Galois group of FF, and let BnB_n be the Borel subgroup of upper-triangular matrices in GLn\operatorname{GL}_n. Florence's conjecture. Every continuous homomorphism

ΓFBn(Fp)\Gamma_F\to B_n(\mathbb F_p)

lifts to a continuous homomorphism

ΓFBn(Z/p2Z).\Gamma_F\to B_n(\mathbb Z/p^2\mathbb Z).

This is a Borel-valued refinement of the question of whether mod-pp Galois representations lift modulo p2p^2. The conjecture is stated for fields containing a primitive p2p^2-th root of unity; the surrounding discussion records affirmative results in several special cases, while the general assertion remains open.

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Primary source

Alexander Merkurjev and Federico Scavia, “Galois representations modulo p that do not lift modulo p^2”, arXiv:2410.12560 (2024).

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