Euler systems for $\mathrm{GSp}(4)$ over imaginary quadratic fields
Alexandros Groutides
TL;DR
The paper constructs an Euler system attached to a general-type cohomological automorphic representation $\Pi$ of $\mathrm{GSp}_4/\mathbb{Q}$, twisted by a Groessencharacter $\psi$ of an imaginary quadratic field $K$, by adapting the $\mathrm{GSp}_4\times\mathrm{GL}_2$ classes of Hsu–Jin–Sakamoto via Gejima’s local input and Novodvorsky–Piatetski-Shapiro zeta integrals. It then transfers these motivic classes to Galois cohomology using an Abel–Jacobi map and CM-patching, producing Euler-system elements with explicit norm-relations over ray-class fields of $K$, and uses them to bound the strict Selmer group $\mathrm{Sel}_{\Sigma_p}(K,T^\vee(1))$ under standard hypotheses. The work also extends the $\mathrm{GSp}_4\times\mathrm{GL}_2$ Euler system to a motivic framework, covering certain small weights, and provides a coherent strategy to deduce Selmer bounds from Euler-system norm relations in a higher-rank setting. Overall, the results contribute a concrete Euler-system construction for $\mathrm{GSp}_4$ over imaginary quadratic fields and demonstrate its arithmetic applications via CM-patching and motivic norm-relations.
Abstract
We construct an Euler system attached to general-type cohomological cuspidal automorphic representations of $\mathrm{GSp}(4)$ twisted by a Groessencharacter of an imaginary quadratic field. We then use this to bound strict Selmer groups under standard hypotheses. In addition, our approach gives a way of extending the $\mathrm{GSp}(4)\times\mathrm{GL}(2)$ Euler system of Hsu-Jin-Sakamoto to a motivic statement which also covers certain small weights omitted in op$.$cit.
