Zariski density of crystalline points

Abstract

We show that crystalline points are Zariski dense in the deformation space of a representation of the absolute Galois group of a p-adic field. We also show that these points are dense in the subspace parameterizing deformations with the determinant equal to a fixed crystalline character. Our proof is purely local and works for all p-adic fields and all residual Galois representations.