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9 - An introduction to Kato's Euler systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2010

A. J. Scholl
Affiliation:
University of Durham
R. L. Taylor
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Introduction

In the conference there was a series of talks devoted to Kato's work on the Iwasawa theory of Galois representations attached to modular forms. The present notes are mainly devoted to explaining the key ingredient, which is the Euler system constructed by Kato, first in the K2-groups of modular curves, and then using the Chern class map, in Galois cohomology. This material is based mainly on the talks given by Kato and the author at the symposium, as well as a series of lectures by Kato in Cambridge in 1993. In a companion paper [29] Rubin explains how, given enough information about an Euler system, one can prove very general finiteness theorems for Selmer groups whenever the appropriate L-function is non-zero (see §8 of his paper for precise results for elliptic curves).

Partly because of space, and partly because of the author's lack of understanding, the scope of these notes is limited. There are two particular restrictions. First, we only prove the key reciprocity law (Theorem 3.2.3 below), which allows one to compute the image of the Euler system under the dual exponential map, in the case of a prime p of good reduction (actually, for stupid reasons explained at the end of §2.1, we also must assume p is odd). Secondly, we say nothing about the case of Galois representations attached to forms of weight greater than 2. For the most general results, the reader will need to consult the preprint [17] and Kato's future papers.

Kato's K2 Euler system has its origins in the work of Beilinson [1] (see also [30] for a beginner's treatment).

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