Potentially semi-stable deformation rings for representations with values in $PGL_n$

Abstract

We study the potentially semi-stable deformation rings for Galois representations taking their values in $PGL_n$, by comparing them to the deformation rings for $GL_n$. As an application, we state an analogue of the Breuil-M\'ezard conjecture, and we show that the case of $PGL_n$ follows from the case of $GL_n$.