Title: Modularity lifting theorems for ordinary Galois representations
Description: In this thesis, we prove modularity lifting theorems for ordinary l -adic Galois representations of a CM or totally real number field F . More specifically, we prove that if [Special characters omitted.] is a continuous, n -dimensional representation which is ordinary above l , unramified almost everywhere, self-dual in an appropriate sense and whose residual representation is ordinarily automorphic and has 'big image', then r is ordinarily automorphic. This generalizes work of Clozel, Harris and Taylor ([CHT08] and [Tay08]) who prove an analogous theorem in the case where r is crystalline above l and in Fontaine-Laffaille range. The 'big image' requirement is a technical condition that also appears in the work of Clozel, Harris and Taylor and is often satisfied in applications (to potential automorphy theorems, for example). The main results of this thesis are obtained by applying the Taylor-Wiles-Kisin method to establish an [Special characters omitted.] theorem where R is a global Galois deformation ring and [Special characters omitted.] is the algebra of Hecke operators acting on a Hida family (associated to a definite unitary group). The key ingredients in the proof are the construction of local ordinary lifting rings at the primes of F dividing l and a description of the irreducible components of these rings in the case where the corresponding local residual representations are trivial.