$p$-adic rigidity for $\mathrm{GSp}_4$

Abstract

This paper establishes the $p$-adic rigidity of certain suitably refined noncuspidal automorphic Saito$\unicode{x2013}$Kurokawa representations of $\mathrm{GSp}_4(\mathbb{A}_\mathbb{Q})$, in the sense that they cannot be interpolated in a nontrivial positive dimensional $p$-adic family. The results provide a $\mathrm{GSp}_4$ analogue of Bellaïche's rigidity theorems for $\mathrm{U}(2,1)$ and identify an obstruction to $p$-adic variation on the $\mathrm{GSp}_4$ eigenvariety.