Iwasawa Theory and p-adic Hodge Theory

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The proposed project falls under the following three broad headings: 1) Iwasawa theory of the fine Selmer groups and Selmer groups: I will continue my investigations in Iwasawa theory and study the mu invariant of the dual Selmer group and the dual fine Selmer group, which are finitely generated modules over certain Iwasawa algebras. These modules have been studied extensively in the case of Galois representations that are ordinary at a prime p. We shall extend our earlier study to the case of  Galois representations that have supersingular reduction at the prime p.Two fundamental Galois representations that we intend to study are those arising from elliptic curves and elliptic modular forms. We shall also simultaneously study the dependence of the Iwasawa theoretic invariants, such as the mu invariant and the lambda invariant, on the associated residual representation. In the case of an elliptic curve defined over a number field, fixing an odd prime p at which the Iwasawa modules are studied, this will naturally lead to understanding the congruence properties of the values of the L-functions of the elliptic curve modulo the prime p. 2) Patching and Adic spaces: I intend to initiate the study of patching techniques in the context of Perfectoid spaces and p-adic Hodge theory. The Patching techniques allow us to patch local data on a curve defined over a p-adic local field to a global one on the curve. As an example, these techniques allow us to construct a quadratic bundle on the whole curve when we are given quadratic spaces over the local rings which are valuation rings on the function field of the curve and satisfy additional verifiable conditions. I plan to explore the adaptability of these techniques to other situations, especially over rings and fields arising in the theory of p-adic Galois representations and those of Adic spaces. We expect these to have interesting applications in p-adic Hodge theory and plan to investigate possible applications to the work of Peter Scholze on Perfectoid spaces. 3) Witt groups of smooth projective surfaces over the reals and finite fields: The Witt ring of a field of characteristic different from 2 studies equivalence classes of quadratic forms over the field. It has a rich structure with connections to algebraic K-theory and Galois cohomology. The Witt group of an algebraic variety involves studying vector bundles on the variety which are equipped with a quadratic space structure on the associated sheaf. The Witt group is a stable birational invariant of the variety and has interesting connections to other birational invariants such as the Chow group of algebraic cycles, the Brauer group and the unramified cohomology groups.The structure of the Witt group of the variety depends on the base field over which the variety is defined. We intend to compute the explicit structure of certain classes of surfaces such as the K3 surfaces, elliptic surfaces over the base field of real numbers and finite fields.