Kato's local epsilon conjecture

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Let (R,T,ζ)(R,T,\zeta) be a triple as in the paper's setup, where TT is an RR-representation of GQpG_{\mathbb Q_p} and ζ\zeta is a Zp\mathbb Z_p-basis of Γ(Q‾p,Zp(1))\Gamma(\overline{\mathbb Q}_p,\mathbb Z_p(1)). Let ΔR(T)\Delta_R(T) be the determinant module defined there. Kato's local epsilon conjecture. There exists a unique compatible family of isomorphisms

εR,ζ(T):1R⟶∼ΔR(T)\varepsilon_{R,\zeta}(T):\mathbf{1}_R\overset{\sim}{\longrightarrow}\Delta_R(T)

for all such triples, satisfying base-change compatibility, multiplicativity in exact sequences, the change-of-basis formula for ζ\zeta, the stated duality commutative diagram, and agreement with the de Rham epsilon-isomorphism for every de Rham triple (L,V,ζ)(L,V,\zeta). This is Kato's proposed foundational compatibility conjecture for local epsilon-isomorphisms. The supplied text gives no resolution status.

References

Primary source

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).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1305.0880.

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