Families of Siegel modular forms, L-functions and modularity lifting conjectures

Abstract

For a prime p and a positive integer g, by making use of certain lifting procedures, we study some constructions of p-adic families of Siegel modular forms of genus g and associated p-adic L-functions. Describing L-functions attached to Siegel modular forms and their analytic properties from the point of view of motivic L-functions studied by Deligne and Yoshida, we discuss critical values of the L-functions and p-adic interpolation problems. In particular, we formulate a general conjecture on the existence of the modularity lifting from GSpr × GSp2m to GSpr+2m for some positive integers r and m.