Serre weights and the Breuil-Mézard conjecture for modular forms

Abstract

Serre's strong conjecture, now a theorem of Khare and Wintenberger, states that every two-dimensional continuous, odd, irreducible mod $p$ Galois representation $\rho$ arises from a modular form of a specific minimal weight $k(\rho )$, level $N(\rho )$ and character $\epsilon (\rho )$. In this short paper we show that the minimal weight $k(\rho )$ is equal to a notion of minimal weight inspired by the recipe for weights introduced by Buzzard, Diamond and Jarvis. Moreover, using the Breuil-Mézard conjecture we show that both weight recipes are equal to the smallest $k\ge 2$ such that $\rho$ has a crystalline lift of Hodge-Tate type $(0,k-1)$.

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