Timeline for English version of Deligne's paper"Les Constantes des Equations Fonctionnelles Des Fonctions L"
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| Mar 28, 2011 at 13:34 | vote | accept | Q-Zh | ||
| Mar 27, 2011 at 21:01 | answer | added | Stefano V. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 27, 2011 at 12:31 | answer | added | Emerton | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 27, 2011 at 6:14 | comment | added | Chandan Singh Dalawat | Perhaps Tate's article Local constants, in Algebraic number fields: $L$-functions and Galois properties (Proc. Sympos., Univ. Durham, Durham, 1975), pp. 89–131. Academic Press, London, 1977, might also be of some help. | |
| Mar 27, 2011 at 4:12 | comment | added | Rob Harron | I second Matt Emerton suggestion, and add a strong recommendation to look at Chapter 7 of Bushnell & Henniart's book ''The Local Langlands Conjecture for'' GL(2). It presents (with proofs) the material on Weil groups and their (Weil–Deligne) representations as well as proving the existence of the "local constants", thus covering a lot of what is in Deligne's article. It even has a proof of the $\ell$-adic monodromy theorem previously only available in the appendix to Serre–Tate! | |
| Mar 27, 2011 at 3:04 | comment | added | Emerton | Have you tried reading Tate's article "Number-theoretic background" from volume 2 of the Corvalis proceedings? It provides a lot of introductory material on Weil groups (some of it taken from Deligne's paper). | |
| Mar 27, 2011 at 1:04 | comment | added | Allen Knutson | If you have a PDF, you can chop it into pieces and feed them to Google Translate, though obviously it's not going to be that good with specialized literature such as math (and it totally destroys the notation). | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 23:59 | comment | added | Jack Huizenga | Fair enough. It is definitely a useful skill to learn though, as many papers are in French and very few of them have translations. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 22:38 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Seconding Rob H's comment. A dictionary might not be enough, if one isn't first comfortable with the formal grammar of something like French. Unfortunately, like Joël, I suspect the paper has not been translated into English. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 21:26 | comment | added | Rob Harron | @Jack Huizenga: I may be wrong, but I'm guessing from the name of the OP that they are likely Chinese. While it might be quite easy for a native english (or italian, or german, ...) speaker to read math in french, it's probably an entirely different thing for a native speaker of an asian language who might've only recently become well-acquainted with english. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 19:42 | comment | added | Q-Zh | Thank you Jack. Actually, if no one had translate it, I want to spend some time to try. I can read some French, but not so comfortable. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 19:24 | comment | added | Jack Huizenga | Reading mathematics in French is really not very difficult. If you want a very compact dictionary with many math terms in it, I'd suggest math.princeton.edu/~klan/documents/french-glossary.pdf, which has helped many a grad student pass their French language exam. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 18:52 | comment | added | Joël | I would be very surprised if anyone had translated it into English. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 18:37 | history | edited | Q-Zh | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Mar 26, 2011 at 17:46 | history | asked | Q-Zh | CC BY-SA 2.5 |