Deformation of Rigid Conjugate Self-dual Galois Representations

In this article, we study deformations of conjugate self-dual Galois representations. The study is twofold. First, we prove an R=T type theorem for a conjugate self-dual Galois representation with coefficients in a finite field, satisfying a certain property called rigid. Second, we study the rigidity property for the family of residue Galois representations attached to a symmetric power of an elliptic curve, as well as to a regular algebraic conjugate self-dual cuspidal representation.