Deformations of Reducible Galois Representations to Hida-Families

Abstract: The global deformation theory of residually reducible Galois representations with fixed auxiliary conditions is studied. We show that $\bar{\rho}:\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})\rightarrow \operatorname{GL}_2(\bar{\mathbb{F}}_p)$ lifts to a Hida line for which the weights range over a congruence class modulo-$p^2$. The advantage of the purely Galois theoretic approach is that it allows us to construct $p$-adic families of Galois representations lifting the actual representation $\bar{\rho}$, and not just the semisimplification.