Gelfand-Kirillov dimension for mod $p$ representations of $p$-adic unitary groups of rank 2
Karol Koziol, Stefano Morra
TL;DR
The paper analyzes mod p representations of p-adic rank-2 unitary groups in the isotypic components of automorphic cohomology. It combines GL_2-transfer techniques, polarized Kisin-module deformation theory, and Taylor–Wiles–Kisin patching to bound and determine Gelfand–Kirillov dimension, proving GK-dim = [K:Q_p] for the relevant representations. Central contributions include transferring minimal multiplicity phenomena from GL_2 to unitary groups, describing deformation rings for essentially conjugate self-dual L-parameters with polarized structures, and establishing freeness and component-matching results for patched modules in the global setting. The work advances mod p Langlands for unitary groups by connecting local deformation geometry, extension combinatorics of Serre weights, and global automorphic patching, with potential implications for supersingular phenomena and weight-part predictions in the mod p Langlands program.
Abstract
Let $p$ be a prime number and $F/F^+$ a CM extension of a totally real field such that every place of $F^+$ above $p$ is unramified and inert in $F$. We fix a finite place $v$ of $F^+$ above $p$, and let $\overline{r}: \textrm{Gal}(\overline{F^+}/F^+) \longrightarrow {}^C\textrm{U}_{1,1}(\overline{\mathbb{F}}_p)$ be a modular $L$-parameter valued in the $C$-group of a rank 2 unitary group associated to $F/F^+$. We assume $\overline{r}$ is semisimple and sufficiently generic at $v$. Using recent results of Breuil--Herzig--Hu--Morra--Schraen along with our previous work, we prove that certain admissible smooth $\overline{\mathbb{F}}_p$-representations of the $p$-adic unitary group $\textrm{U}_{1,1}(F^+_v)$ associated to $\overline{r}$ in spaces of mod $p$ automorphic forms have Gelfand--Kirillov dimension $[F^+_v:\mathbb{Q}_p]$.
