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Difference between smooth and continuous $\ell$-adic representations

I am studying the book "The local Langlands conjecture for GL$_2$" scribed by Bushnell and Henniart. When they talk about $\ell$-adic representations, they assert without explanation that ...
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Roadmap to Carayol-Deligne-Langlands

Having begun self-study of Fermat's Last Theorem a few years ago, I have only recently begun to understand and appreciate the theorem of Carayol-Deligne-Langlands on local-global compatibility for ...
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A question related to Kirillov model

I am reading Jackson - The theory of admissible representations of $\operatorname{GL}(2, F)$ and am not able to understand the following map related to Kirillov model. This result appears on p. 54: I ...
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Trying to understand the topology of the Weil group for the local Langlands conjecture

I am trying to study the representation of the Weil group from the book "The Local Langlands Conjecture for $GL(2)$". I have some problem with the topology of this group. Let $F$ be a non ...
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Quadratic unramified extension of a p-adic field

Let $F$ be a non-archimedean local field of residual characteristic $p\neq 2$, and let $E=F[\sqrt{\epsilon}]$ be the quadractic unramified extension, here $\epsilon$ is a non-square element of $\...
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Automorphic representation of GL(1)

These might be very silly questions, but somehow I am not able to understand it or I might have misunderstood something. I am reading automorphic forms from this book. What I have understood till now: ...
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A detail in I. Piatetski-Shapiro and S. Rallis's "Doubling paper": computing the integral on negligible orbits

I'm currently reading the paper "L-functions for the classical groups" by I. Piatetski-Shapiro and S. Rallis, where they introduced the doubling method over classical groups. I'm confused at ...
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Finite coefficients Langlands for function fields

Do we have a finite coefficients Langlands correspondence for function fields? By which I mean a bijection between Galois representations $$\pi_1(X)\to \mathrm{GL}_n\left(\overline{\mathbb{F}_p}\right)...
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Irreducible components of a cyclic extension over $ \mathbb{Q} $

$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}\DeclareMathOperator\Gal{Gal}$Let $ L $ be a cyclic Galois extension of $ \mathbb{Q} $ of degree $ 6 $. So $ G = \Gal(L/\mathbb{Q}) $ is a cyclic group of order $ 6 $. Then ...
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Powers of automorphic Eisenstein series

Let $G$ be a reductive group defined over $\mathbb{Q}$. Let $P$ be a standard parabolic subgroup of $G$ with Levi decomposition $$P = MN.$$ We denote by $R_{disc,M}$ the discrete spectrum of $M$. Let $...
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Truncation and weighted orbital integrals in hyperbolic term of trace formula for $\mathrm{GL}(2)$

$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}\DeclareMathOperator\PGL{PGL}$I am looking at Gelbart--Jacquet's article in the first Corvallis volume (the article entitled Forms of $\GL(2)$ from an analytic point of ...
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Image of Frobenius element under irreducible representation is diagonalizable

Let $K/ \mathbb Q$ be a Galois extension, and $\rho$ be an irreducible representation of the Galois group $Gal(K/ \mathbb Q)$. Consider an integer prime $p$ which doesn't ramify in $K$, and let $\...
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Does Langlands use the geometric Frobenius or the classical Frobenius in his papers?

In several of Langlands' papers: Representations of Abelian Algebraic Groups, On Artin's L-functions, On the Functional Equation of Artin's L-functions, Langlands takes a finite Galois extension $K/F$ ...
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Analogous theorem for Hilbert modular forms

I have studied modular forms and saw a correspondence like a newform correspond to a automorphic representation of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{A_Q})$. Does any similar result holds for Hilbert modular ...
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Conductor of Principal series representation

Let $\mathbb{F}$ be a local field and let $\pi$ be a principal series representation of $GL_2(\mathbb{F})$ that is $\pi=Ind_B^{GL_2}(\chi_1\otimes\chi_2)$ for two characters $\chi_1$ and $\chi_2$ of ...
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Field of definition of compatible system of Galois representations

Let $K,F$ be number fields and suppose that there is a compatible system of Galois representations $$(\rho_{\lambda} : \text{Gal}(\overline{K}/K) \longrightarrow \text{GL}_n(\overline{F}_\lambda) )$$ ...
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A question about Galois representations

Let $K$ be a number field and $(\rho,V)$, $(\rho',V')$ be two Galois representations of $\mathrm{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/K)$. Suppose that for some positive integer $n$ we have $\mathrm{Sym}^n\rho\...
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Local polynomials of Frobenius-semisimple Weil representations which are tensor products of an Artin representation and an unramified character

Let $K$ be a local field and $\rho: W_K \to \operatorname{GL}(V)$ be a Weil representation. The for any finite extension $F/K$, we define the local polynomial $$ P(\rho|_F,T) = \det{(1 - \operatorname{...
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Local factors determine Weil representations - proof of the Artin representation case

This post can be seen as a continuation of this post I created on MathOverflow. I want to understand the proof of the following Theorem from "Euler Factors determine Weil Representations" by Tim and ...
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Local factors determine Weil representations - proof of the cyclic case

I already created this post on Math Stack Exchange but I was not so sure if this question fits better here. If it is not, I want to apologize in advance and feel free to delete my post. I want to ...
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A question of integral on $p$-adic fields $\mathbb{Q_p}$

We assume that $(\pi,V)$ is an admissible, irreducible and infinite-dimensional representation of $GL_2(\mathbb{Q_p})$. In the proof of existence and uniqueness of Kirillov model, the key step is that ...
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Classification of coregular spaces

Let $G$ be a reductive group, and let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space on which $G$ acts linearly. Let $\mathcal{P}$ be the ring of polynomial invariants of the action of $G$ on $V$. We say ...
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Cartan decomposition for $G[z]$

Let $G$ be a reductive group over complex numbers. Fix some maximal torus $T$. Let $\Lambda^{+}$ be the monoid of dominant coweights. It is known that one has a Cartan decomposition $$G((z))=\coprod\...
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Artin conjecture on L-functions

Artin conjecture on Artin $L$-functions asserts that the Artin $L$-function $L(\rho,s)$ of a non-trivial irreducible representation $\rho$ of the Galois group $\Gamma$ of a number field admits ...
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Philosophy behind cohomological representations

For a given real reductive Lie group $G$, we have the notion of a representation being cohomological using the Lie algebra cohomology. In particular we know that the discrete series representations of ...
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Chinese Remainder Theorem backwards

I have the following situation, that is much alike the Chinese Remainder Theorem. Let $\phi_d(\alpha)$ be the $d^{th}$ cyclotomic polynomial in the variable $\alpha$ (I'm not specifying the ...
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Decompositions of representations of pro-p groups

Let $P$ be a pro-p group. Assume that there is a filtration of $P$ by normal subgroups $P_i$ such that $P_0=P$ and $P_{i+1} < P_i(i\in\mathbb N)$. Let $V$ be an $l$-adic representation of $P$, ...
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A natural way of thinking of the definition of an Artin $L$-function?

Emil Artin knew that given a finite extension of $L/\mathbb{Q}$, the local factor of the zeta function $\zeta_{L/\mathbb{Q}}$ at the prime $p$ should be $\displaystyle\prod_{\mathfrak{p}|p}\frac{1}{1 -...
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Image of a Galois representation

Notation: $E$ is a non-CM Elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$. $p$ is an ordinary prime. $f$ - cuspidal eigenform of weight $k$ = 2 attached with $E$. $\rho_f$ - the global 2-dimensional $p$-adic ...
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Class groups in dihedral extensions - some sort of Spiegelungssatz?

Let $p$ be an odd prime and let $F/\mathbb{Q}$ be a Galois extension with Galois group $D_{2p}$, let $K$ be the intermediate quadratic extension of $\mathbb{Q}$, and $L$ an intermediate degree $p$ ...
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Is every (finite-dimensional, complex) representation of a finite group defined over the algebraic integers?

Is every (finite-dimensional, complex) representation of a finite group defined over the algebraic integers? Apologies in advance if this is obvious. Edit, 5/31/24: Since this question is getting some ...
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