Theta Operator Equals Fontaine Operator on Modular Curves

Abstract

Inspired by [Pan22], we give a new proof that for an overconvergent modular eigenform $f$ of weight $1+k$ with $k\in\mathbb{Z}_{\ge1}$, assuming that its associated global Galois representation $\rho_{f}$ is irreducible, then $f$ is classical if and only if $\rho_{f}$ is de Rham at $p$. For the proof, we prove that theta operator $\theta^{k}$ coincides with Fontaine operator in a suitable sense.