Ramification of Hilbert eigenvarieties at classical points

Abstract

Andreatta-Iovita-Pilloni constructed eigenvarieties for cuspidal Hilbert modular forms. The eigenvariety has a natural map to the weight space, called the weight map. At a classical point, we compute a lower bound of the dimension of the tangent space of the fiber of the weight map using Galois deformation theory. Along with the classicality theorem due to Tian-Xiao, this enables us to characterize the classical points of the eigenvariety which are ramified over the weight space, in terms of the local splitting behavior of the associated Galois representation.