Let
be a finite
unramified extension of
of degree and
be an absolutely
irreducible mod
-dimensional
representation of the absolute Galois group of
. Let t be a tame
inertial type of level
of
. We
conjecture that the deformation space parametrizing the potentially Barsotti–Tate liftings
of having
type t depends only on the Kisin variety attached to the situation, enriched with its canonical
embedding into
and its shape stratification. We give evidence towards this conjecture by proving that
the Kisin variety determines the cardinality of the set of common Serre weights
.
Additionally, we prove that this dependence is nondecreasing (the smaller the Kisin
variety, the smaller the number of common Serre weights) and compatible with
products (if the Kisin variety splits as a product, so does the number of
weights).