Timeline for A conceptual proof of Jacobi's product formula for $\Delta$ ?
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| Nov 6, 2012 at 9:14 | comment | added | S. Carnahan♦ | You may be aware of this already, but an anonymous blogger gave a nice argument using Hecke eigenvalues of the $E_2$ series: galoisrepresentations.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/… | |
| Oct 2, 2012 at 13:59 | comment | added | Joël | Dear Paul, thanks for your answer. This is doubtlessly a conceptual proof, which for me is satisfying. But it is not something I can put in my course since I haven't time to discuss the converse theorems. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 16:51 | comment | added | paul garrett | It's not "conceptual" in the sense you desire, but Weil's "Sur une formule classique" (Collected works vol III pp 198-200) uses the primordial version of "converse theorems" (in a self-contained fashion) to give a substantially believable proof. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 16:18 | comment | added | Joël | You're right. Done. | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 16:18 | history | edited | Joël | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2012 at 16:00 | comment | added | Chandan Singh Dalawat | It would be nice to mention the Hurwitz reference here (which journal and which year ?). | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 15:43 | history | asked | Joël | CC BY-SA 3.0 |