Rigidity and absolute irreducibility of reductions of automorphic Galois representations

Let FF be the number field in the setup, let Π\Pi be a d\mathfrak d-REASDC representation of GL2m(AF)\operatorname{GL}_{2m}(\mathbb A_F), let EE be a strong coefficient field of Π\Pi, and for each finite place λ\lambda of EE let

ρΠ,λ:GalFGL2m(Eλ)\rho_{\Pi,\lambda}:\operatorname{Gal}_F\to\operatorname{GL}_{2m}(E_\lambda)

be the associated continuous homomorphism. Let PΠ\mathcal P^\Pi be the finite set of finite places outside which Π\Pi is unramified. Fix a finite set P\mathcal P of finite places of FF containing PΠ\mathcal P^\Pi. Rigidity and irreducibility conjecture. Suppose that the base change of Π\Pi to F(d)F(\sqrt{\mathfrak d}) is also cuspidal. Then for all but finitely many primes λ\lambda of EE with underlying rational prime \ell, the reduction satisfies both

ρΠ,λGal(F/F(μ)(d))\overline{\rho}_{\Pi,\lambda}\big|_{\operatorname{Gal}(\overline F/F(\mu_\ell)(\sqrt{\mathfrak d}))}

is absolutely irreducible and ρΠ,λ\overline{\rho}_{\Pi,\lambda} is rigid for (P,ν)(\mathcal P,\nu) in the sense of Definition~. This predicts simultaneous residual absolute irreducibility after the indicated cyclotomic-quadratic restriction and rigidity for almost all coefficient primes under the cuspidal base-change hypothesis.

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Hao Peng and Dmitri Whitmore, “An R=T theorem for certain orthogonal Shimura varieties”, arXiv:2602.04778 (2026).

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