Codimension two cycles in Iwasawa theory and tensor product of Hida families

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to build on results in {\it{higher codimension Iwasawa theory}}. The setting of our results involves Galois representations arising as cyclotomic twist deformations associated to (i) the tensor product of two cuspidal Hida families $F$ and $G$, and (ii) the tensor product of three cuspidal Hida families $F$, $G$ and $H$. On the analytic side, we consider (i) a pair of $3$-variable Rankin-Selberg $p$-adic $L$-functions constructed by Hida and (ii) a balanced $4$-variable $p$-adic $L$-function (due to Hsieh and Yamana) and an unbalanced $4$-variable $p$-adic $L$-function (whose existence is currently conjectural). In each of these setups, when the two $p$-adic $L$-functions generate a height two ideal in the corresponding deformation ring, we use codimension two cycles of that ring to relate them to a pair of pseudo-null modules.

Minor changes. To appear in Math. Ann