P-adic L-functions in universal deformation families

Abstract

We construct examples of p-adic L-functions over universal deformation spaces for GL(2). We formulate a conjecture predicting that the natural parameter spaces for p-adic L-functions are not the usual eigenvarieties (parametrising nearly-ordinary families of automorphic representations), but other, larger spaces depending on a choice of a parabolic subgroup, which we call "big parabolic eigenvarieties".