Let $F$
be a non-archimedean local field of residue characteristic $p$
. The classical local Langlands correspondence is a 1-1 correspondence between 2-dimensional irreducible complex representations of the Weil group of $F$
and certain smooth irreducible complex representations of $GL_2(F)$
. The number-theoretic applications made it necessary to seek such correspondence of representations on vector spaces over a field of characteristic $p$
. In this talk, however, I will show that for $F$
of residue degree $> 1$
, unfortunately, there is no such 1-1 mod $p$
correspondence. This result is an elaboration of the arguments of Breuil and Paskunas to an arbitrary local field of residue degree $> 1$
.