On the kernels of the pro-$p$ outer Galois representations associated to once-punctured CM elliptic curves

Abstract

In this paper, we compare a certain field arising from the pro-$p$ outer Galois representation associated to a once-punctured CM elliptic curve over an imaginary quadratic field $K$ with the maximal pro-$p$ Galois extension of the mod-$p$ ray class field $K(p)$ of $K$ unramified outside $p$. We prove that these two fields coincide for every prime $p$ which satisfies certain assumptions, assuming an analogue of the Deligne-Ihara conjecture. This may be regarded as an analogue of a result of Sharifi on the kernel of the pro-$p$ outer Galois representation associated to the projective line minus three points.