RESEARCH IN RESIDENCE
Companion forms for GSp4
Formes compagnons pour GSp4
9 – 20 December, 2024
Participants
Chi-Yun Hsu (Santa Clara University)
Bharathwaj Palvannan (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
There is a well-known classification of cuspidal eigenforms, distinguishing CM (complex multiplication) forms from non-CM forms. Subsequently, there have been many well-known problems asking if one can classify whether a cuspidal eigenform f has CM or not, solely based on arithmetic data associated to f. Greenberg and Coleman independently asked for a local characterization of the global property of a cuspidal Hecke eigenform f having CM. While Greenberg’s conjecture studies the shape of the local Galois representation attached to f, Coleman’s conjecture involves the theta operator. More specifically, Coleman conjectured that f has CM if and only if it lies in the image of a suitable power of the theta operator. Such a conjectural local characterization is intimately connected to the theory of companion forms. While the theory of companion forms in characteristic p plays a key role in the weight aspect of Serre’s conjectures, Coleman’s local characterization allows us to naturally consider companion forms in characteristic 0.
We believe that the role played by CM forms in Coleman’s conjecture should be replaced by Yoshida lifts in the setting of Siegel cuspidal Hecke eigenforms of genus 2. In particular, the purpose of our project is to show that the Yoshida lifts lie in the image of a certain theta operator. Although companion forms and theta operators of in this setting of Siegel modular forms have studied in characteristic p by numerous authors, the characteristic 0 story remains unexplored.