Compatibility conjecture for Mazur–Rubin local constants and epsilon constants

Let pp be an odd prime, let LL be a finite extension of Qp\mathbb Q_p, and let T1T_1 and T2T_2 be symplectic self-dual OL\mathcal O_L-representations of GQpG_{\mathbb Q_p}. Put

Vi=TiZpQp(i{1,2}),V_i=T_i\otimes_{\mathbb Z_p}\mathbb Q_p\qquad (i\in\{1,2\}),

and suppose that each ViV_i is de Rham and that T1T_1 and T2T_2 are residually symplectically isomorphic. Let ε^p(Vi)\hat{\varepsilon}_p(V_i), Γ(Vi)\Gamma(V_i), εp(Vi)\varepsilon_p(V_i), and δp(T1,T2)\delta_p(T_1,T_2) be the local invariants defined in the paper. Compatibility conjecture for local constants.

ε^p(V1)ε^p(V2):=Γ(V1)εp(V1)Γ(V2)εp(V2)=(1)δp(T1,T2).\frac{\hat{\varepsilon}_p(V_1)}{\hat{\varepsilon}_p(V_2)}:=\frac{\Gamma(V_1)\varepsilon_p(V_1)}{\Gamma(V_2)\varepsilon_p(V_2)}=(-1)^{\delta_p(T_1,T_2)}.

This conjecture seeks to identify the ratio of normalized local epsilon constants with the Mazur–Rubin arithmetic local constant. The supplied text mentions partial results of Mazur–Rubin and Nekovář in related settings but gives no resolution of the proposed statement.

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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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