As part of the Langlands conjecture, it is predicted that every $\ell$-adic Galois representation attached to an algebraic cuspidal automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}_n$ over a number field is irreducible. In this talk, we will prove that a type $A_1$ Galois representation attached to a regular algebraic (polarized) cuspidal automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}_n$ over a totally real field $K$ is irreducible for all $\ell$, subject to some mild conditions. We will also prove that the attached Galois representation is residually irreducible for almost all $\ell$. Moreover, if $K=\mathbb Q$, we will prove that the attached Galois representation can be constructed from two-dimensional modular Galois representations up to twist. This is a joint work with Professor Chun-Yin Hui.

For motivational purposes, we begin by explaining the classical Satake isomorphism from which we deduce the unramified local Langlands correspondence. Then we explain a geometric interpretation of the Satake isomorphism. More precisely, we explain how one can view Hecke operators as global functions on the moduli space of unramified L-parameters. This viewpoint arises from the categorical local Langlands correspondence. The main content of the talk is p-adic and mod p analogues of this interpretation, where the space of unramified L-parameters is replaced by certain loci in the moduli stack of p-adic Galois representations (so-called the Emerton-Gee stack). We will also discuss their relationship with the categorical p-adic local Langlands program.