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What is the $p$-adic Langlands conjecture for $\mathbf{GL}_1$?

In the Boston conference on Fermat's Last Theorem (Summer 1995), Barry Mazur said (around 15m into the video) about class field theory that If you are a number-theorist and you want to cheer ...
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Any open Langlands Conjectures for GL_1?

Are there any general conjectures/properties (in the Langlands Program) for automorphic representations of $GL_n$ which are still open for $n=1$?
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Poles of Rankin-Selberg $L(s,\pi\times\tilde \pi)$?

Let $F$ be a number field and let $\pi$ be a cuspidal automorphic representation of $GL_n(\mathbb{A_F})$. Do we know that $L(s,\pi\times \tilde\pi)$ has a simple pole at $s=1$? Do we know that $\...
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Local Langlands Conjecture for p-adic SO(4), reference request

In section 10 of Gan-Gross-Prasad's paper "Symplectic local root numbers, central critical L-values, and restriction problems in the representation theory of classical groups" http://arxiv.org/pdf/...
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Langlands program vs Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture

Edward Frenkel said that "we can see Langlands program as a generalization of Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture in the case of elliptic curves" I hope I'm not distorting his phrase, can someone ...
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What do Hecke eigensheaves actually look like?

Let $\mathbb F_q$ be a finite field, $C$ a curve over $\mathbb F_q$ of genus $g\geq 2$, $\rho: \pi_1(C) \to GL_2(\overline{\mathbb Q}_\ell)$ an irreducible local system. The geometric Langlands ...
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Consequences of Langlands functoriality conjecture

I would like to know whether Langlands' functoriality conjecture implies that the Selberg class coincides with the class of automorphic L-functions and, if so, whether this class is closed under ...
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Local Langlands correspondence and Galois equivariance

The local Langlands correspondence $\text{rec}$ for $\text{GL}_{n}$ itself is not Galois equivariant (i.e. invariant under automorphisms of its field of definition) but rather its twist by ...
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What is the status of Arthur's book?

Arthur's long-awaited book project is now published (The endoscopic classification of representations: orthogonal and symplectic groups). However, in the book he takes some things for granted: The ...
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algebraic representation over $\mathbb{C}$

In reading the Harris-Taylor book, I encounter expressions like "Let $\xi$ be an algebraic representation of $G$ over $\mathbb{C}$". What does this mean? Here $G$ is a reductive group over $\mathbb{Q}$...
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Number theory and physics

I was following some lectures by Edward Frenkel about Langlands correspondence. He was describing some analogies between number theory and theoretical physics (Mirror symmetry). At some point ( my ...
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Relation between Weil Conjecture and Langlands Program

Recently I read Gelbart's An Elementary Introduction To The Langlands Program, which explained the origin of the program, and this question came to me. For an elliptic curve over finite field, the ...
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Propagation of modularity and the Artin conjecture

The (still incomplete) solution of the Artin conjecture on dimension $\leq2$ has been a massive research effort that has spanned (knowingly or not) around a century. A very natural question is, what ...
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Simplest case of Langlands-Shahidi method

I would like to read the simplest examples of Langlands-Shahidi method carried out to prove the functional equation of $L$-function. Could the constant term of $\mathrm{GL}(2)$-Eisenstein series be ...
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Mochizuki's "phenomena in number theory" outside the scope of Langlands

(Crossposted from math.stackexchange by suggestion) On page 12 of Shinichi Mochizuki's "On the Verification of Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory: A Progress Repor", he writes "The representation-...
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Generic irreducibility of parabolic induction

In J.Bernstein's notes: REPRESENTATION OF P-ADIC GROUPS, he remarked the following result(see P.88): Let $G$ be a reductive group defined over nonarchimedean local field $F$, $P$ parabolic subgroup of ...
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To what extent are modular parametrizations expected to generalize?

By the Modularity Theorem (a.k.a. the Shimura--Taniyama--Weil Conjecture), if $E$ is an elliptic curve over $\textbf{Q}$ with conductor $N$, then there exists a “modular parametrization” $\psi: X_0(N) ...
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Explicit Chebotarev and Langlands - irreducibility of X^5-X-1 mod primes

Is there an explicit infinite set of primes, modulo which $X^5 - X - 1$ is irreducible? Since our polynomial's Galois group over $\mathbb{Q}$ is $S_5$, Chebotarev's density theorem implies that there ...
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Automorphic factorization of Dedekind zeta functions

It is well known that for abelian number fields, the factorization of its Dedekind zeta function goes like this: $$\zeta_K(s)=\zeta(s)\prod_{\chi \neq 1} L(s,\chi)$$ with the Dirichlet characters ...
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Is the twisted symmetric fifth power $L$-function holomorphic?

Let $\pi$ be a Maass cusp form for SL($2,\mathbb Z$). Let $\omega$ be a primitive Dirichlet character. Let us consider the $L-$ function $$L(s,Sym^5 \pi \times \omega)$$ or $L(s,Sym^6 \pi \times \...
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The infinity-type of automorphic representations in the Langlands correspondence

Let $K$ be a number field, $\rho\colon \mathrm{Gal}_K\to \mathrm{GL}_n(\overline{\mathbf{Q}_p})$ a geometric (i.e.: unramified a.e., de Rham above $p$) irreducible Galois representation. One piece of ...
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Clifford-Mackey theory, references

I am working on a problem related to the local Langlands correspondence and I am interested in certain smooth representations of locally profinite groups (in particular of the Weil group of a local ...
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A computation about Whittaker functions and Eisenstein series

I have some questions about the computation of Eisenstein series and Whittaker functions in the book. The question is on page 29, Theorem 4.3. My questions are in the following. (1) I think that $B(...
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Two questions about Whittaker functions

I am watching the video: Modeling p-adic Whittaker functions, Part I. I have two questions about Whittaker functions in the video. From 33:00 to 37:00, it is said that after changing of variables, ...
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Rankin-Selberg for Maass form GL(3)xGL(2)

Let $F$ be a Maass cusp form for $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{Z})$ (level 1 trivial character). Let $g$ be a Maass cusp form for $\Gamma_0(N)$ with character $\chi$ mod $N$. For convenience, you may assume ...
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Langlands reciprocity for C*-algebras

I just came across this paper which, judging by what I understood, establishes the Langlands reciprocity conjecture for a certain Shimura variety. My question, regardless of the validity of the proof, ...
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Weil group of a local field, small notational problem

In Bushnell and Henniart, The Local Langlands conjecture for GL(2), there is a proposition on p. 184 in which they prove the following: Let $F$ be a non-archimedean local field, $\mathcal W_F$ its ...
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Functoriality for non-split orthogonal groups

I am trying to understand the functoriality conjectures of Langlands. We know that the functoriality conjectures imply that automorphic $L$-functions of a connected reductive group are equal to ...
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Lindelof Hypothesis implying Selberg Eigenvalue Conjecture?

The Generalized Lindelof Hypothesis says that for the $L$-function of an automorphic form we have $$L(1/2+it)\ll Q(t)^{\epsilon}$$ for any $\epsilon>0$ where $Q(t)$ is the conductor of $L(s)$ at $...
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A certain idele class character

Let $E/K$ be a cubic extension of number fields, $\nu$ be a Grossencharacter of the idele class group $\mathbb{I}_{E}/E^{\ast}$ such that $\nu^2$ is trivial and $\nu$ restricted to the idele class ...
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Arthur's refinement of parameters for unitary automorphic representations

In his work on the classification of automorphic representations of a group $G$, Arthur has conjectured that the parameterization of such representations involves a homomorphism $\rho : SL_2 \times ...
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mod $p$ Jacquet-Langlands correspondence

Let $F$ be a local field of characteristic $0$. Let $D$ be division algebra over $F$ of dimension $n^2$. The construction of irreducible complex representations of $D^*$ is known by Howe, Zink, and ...
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Serious introduction to the Langlands program for nonspecialist

I recently became interested in the Langlands program and hope to learn more. For context, I am an analytic number theorist but have some light background in algebraic number theory and modular forms....
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Symmetric Fifth Power Lift of GL(2) Automorphic Form

Let $\pi$ be an automorphic representation of $GL(2)/\mathbb{Q}$. For simplicity, you can take it to be a Maass form for $SL(2,\mathbb Z)$. Kim, Shahidi, Gelbart-Jacquet prove that $$L(s, \pi, Sym^m)$...
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Self-dual automorphic forms on $GL(4)$

As is known among experts, all self-dual automorphic forms on $GL(3)$ come from symmetric square lifts from $GL(2)$. You can find this in Ramakrishnan (http://www.math.caltech.edu/~dinakar/papers/...
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looking for reference on dihedral, tetrahedral, or octahedral forms

I am looking for a reference on dihedral, tetrahedral, or octahedral forms. As far as I read, they are some cuspidal automorphic forms on $GL(2)$ induced from $GL(1)$. Dihedral is from $GL(1)/K$ to $...
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Are there any simple, interesting consequences to motivate the local Langlands correspondence?

Let's pretend that we know local Langlands at a fairly high level of generality... i.e. we know something along the lines of: Let $G=\mathbf{G}(F)$ be the group of $F$-points of a connected reductive ...
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Is the adjoint L-function on GL(m) holomorphic?

Let $\pi$ be an automorphic representation on $\mathrm{GL}(m)/\mathbb{Q}$. Define $$L(s,\pi,\mathrm{Ad}):=\frac{L(s,\pi\times\overline{\pi})}{\zeta(s)}.$$ This is an $L$-function with Euler product of ...
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Absolute convergence of Rankin–Selberg series

Let $\pi$ and $\pi'$ be two general automorphic representations on $\operatorname{GL}(n)$ and $\operatorname{GL}(n')$ over $\mathbb{Q}$. I heard that the Rankin-Selberg $L$-function $L(s,\pi\times\pi')...
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Langlands' original observation about Ramanujan conjecture

Obviously functoriality of arbitrary high symmetric power lifts of automorphic forms on GL(2) will lead to the Ramanujan conjecture. But I guess that is too strong for Ramanujan. I came across some ...
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standard zero free region of automorphic L-function on GL(N)

Let $L(s,\pi)$ be the standard(Godement-Jacquet) $L$-function of $\pi$, where $\pi$ is a cuspidal automorphic represetation of $GL(m,A_Q)$. What's the standard zero-free region for $L(s,\pi)$? any ...
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Euler product of Asai L-function?

Let $\pi$ be an automorphic form of GL(n)/$\mathbb{Q}$ with standard $L$-function $$L(s,\pi)=\prod_p \prod_{i=1}^n(1-\frac{\alpha_{p,i}}{p^s})^{-1},$$ where $\{\alpha_{p,i}:i=1,\dots,n\}$ are the ...
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GL(2) Local Langlands and Artin's L-function

The context I am thinking of mainly is GL(2), and accordingly, the degree 2 Artin L-function. But comments about GL(n) in general are also welcome. In light the local Langlands correspondence, what ...
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Functoriality for triple product GL(2) x GL(2) x GL(2)

Let $f$, $g$ and $h$ be three general automorphic forms on $\operatorname{GL}(2)$. Do we know that $L(s, f\times g\times h)$ comes from an automorphic form on $\operatorname{GL}(8)$?
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Which Weil group over a $p$-adic field?

For simplicity, call the Weil group of a local nonarchimedean field $F_v$ to be the following extension: $$1\longrightarrow F^\times_v\longrightarrow W_{F_v}\longrightarrow\text{Gal}(F_v/\mathbb Q_v)\...
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References for particular topics related to Langlands

I have never really concentrated on Langlands, which explains my poor level of understanding of it. But I have read quite a few introductory papers related to Langlands, and to the circle of ideas ...
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What is the intuition behind the definition of cuspidal representations?

Let $\mathbb{G}$ be a reductive group defined over a number field $K$, let $Z$ be its center, and let $\mathbb{A}:=\mathbb{A}_K$ be the ring of adeles of $K$. Reasonably, we care about the $\mathbb{G}(...
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What's the status of Arthur's announced classification for GSp(4)?

In "Automorphic representations of GSp(4)" (2004) (see http://www.math.toronto.edu/arthur/), James Arthur announces a classification of discrete automorphic representations of GSp(4). There are no ...
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Current Status on Langlands Program

The Langlands Program was launched almost fifty years ago, and progress has been made gradually, much of it hard earned. Langlands himself wrote a survey on the functoriality conjecture in 1997, Where ...
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Local Langlands for $GL(2,\mathbf{C})$ and reducible principal series

My naive picture of the local Langlands correspondence for $GL(2,\mathbf{C})$ is this. The Weil group of $\mathbf{C}$ is canonically $\mathbf{C}^\times$. On the Galois side then we're looking at 2-...
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