Toward an explicit eigencurve for GL(3)
Abstract
Starting with a numerically noncritical (at p) Hecke eigenclass f in the homology of a congruence subgroup Γ of SL3(ℤ) (where p divides the level of Γ) with classical coefficients, we first show how to compute to any desired degree of accuracy a lift of f to a Hecke eigenclass F with coefficients in a module of p-adic distributions. Then we show how to find to any desired degree of accuracy the germ of the projection Z to weight space of the eigencurve around the point z corresponding to the system of Hecke eigenvalues of F. We do this under the conjecturally mild hypothesis that Z is smooth at z.