We introduce an axiomatization of the notion of ( \(p\hspace{1pt}\) -complete) anticyclotomic Euler system for a wide class of Galois representations, including those attached to a cuspidal eigenform and to a Hida family of modular forms. Under a minimal set of assumptions, we show how to build from these data a universal Kolyvagin system for the representation and for its anticyclotomic twist. Eventually, we recover some applications to the structure of Selmer groups and Iwasawa main conjectures and we review a few concrete examples of these abstract notions that can be found in the literature.
