Zariski density of crystalline points

Abstract

We show that crystalline points are Zariski dense in the deformation space of a representation of the absolute Galois group of a $p$-adic field. We also show that these points are dense in the subspace parameterizing deformations with determinant equal to a fixed crystalline character. Our proof is purely local and works for all $p$-adic fields and all residual Galois representations.