The relative pp-parity conjecture

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Let FF be a number field, let LL be a pp-adic local field, and let VV and V′V' be geometric symplectic self-dual pp-adic representations of GFG_F over LL. For each representation define

χf(F,V)=dim⁡LHf1(F,V)−dim⁡LH0(F,V).\chi_{\rm f}(F,V)=\dim_L H^1_{\rm f}(F,V)-\dim_L H^0(F,V).

Let ε(V)\varepsilon(V) and ε(V′)\varepsilon(V') denote their global epsilon constants. The relative pp-parity conjecture.

(−1)χf(F,V)−χf(F,V′)=ε(V)ε(V′).(-1)^{\chi_{\rm f}(F,V)-\chi_{\rm f}(F,V')}=\frac{\varepsilon(V)}{\varepsilon(V')}.

This compares the parity difference of two Bloch--Kato Selmer-group Euler characteristics with the ratio of their global epsilon constants. Its status is not resolved in the supplied text.

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Ashay Burungale, Shinichi Kobayashi, Kentaro Nakamura and Kazuto Ota, “A local sign decomposition for symplectic self-dual Galois representations of rank two”, arXiv:2508.17776 (2025).

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