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Which philosophy for reductive groups?
I am just beginning to look further into trace formulas and automorphic forms in a quite general setting. For long I have noticed that the natural assumption on the group $G$ we work on is to be ...
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Euler Subgroups and Automorphic L-functions
Recently, I have read about the Whittaker expansion for $\mathrm{GL}_n$ and was struck by the utility of the mirabolic subgroup, $\mathrm{P}_n\subset \mathrm{GL}_n$ of matrices with bottom row $(0\; 0 ...
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Total sum of characters of the symmetric group $\frak{S}_n$
Let $\chi_{\mu}^{\lambda}$ denote a value of an irreducible character of the symmetric group $\frak{S}_n$, where $\mu, \lambda\vdash n$. When $\mu=(n)$, then it's known that
$$\sum_{\lambda\vdash n}\...
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Feit-Thompson conjecture
The Feit-Thompson conjecture states:
If $p<q$ are primes, then $\frac{q^p-1}{q-1}$ does not divide $\frac{p^q-1}{p-1}$.
On page xiii of these proceedings of a conference at the University of ...
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What is the status of Arthur's book?
Arthur's long-awaited book project is now published (The endoscopic classification of representations: orthogonal and symplectic groups). However, in the book he takes some things for granted:
The ...
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Current Status on Langlands Program
The Langlands Program was launched almost fifty years ago, and progress has been made gradually, much of it hard earned. Langlands himself wrote a survey on the functoriality conjecture in 1997, Where ...
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Linking formulas by Euler, Pólya, Nekrasov-Okounkov
Consider the formal product
$$F(t,x,z):=\prod_{j=0}^{\infty}(1-tx^j)^{z-1}.$$
(a) If $z=2$ then on the one hand we get Euler's
$$F(t,x,2)=\sum_{n\geq0}\frac{(-1)^nx^{\binom{n}2}}{(x;x)_n}t^n,$$
on the ...
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Status of (global) Langlands conjecture for $\mathrm{GL}_2$ over $\mathbb{Q}$
$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Apologies if this question has already been dealt with on MO. I am wondering about the status of the global Langlands conjectures for $\GL_2$ over the rational numbers. ...
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Which p-adic numbers are also algebraic?
What is $\mathbb{Q}_p \cap \overline{\mathbb{Q}}$ ?
For instance, we know that $\mathbb{Q}_p$ contains the $p-1$st roots of unity, so we might say that $\mathbb{Q}(\zeta) \subset \mathbb{Q}_p \cap \...
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Reconciling Lusztig's results with the Langlands philosophy
Let $\boldsymbol{G}$ be a reductive group over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, $G = \boldsymbol{G}(\mathbb{F}_q)$, $W = \mathrm{W}(\mathbb{F}_q)$ the Witt vectors over $\mathbb{F}_q$, and $K = \mathrm{...
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On an asymptotic formula of Keating and Snaith involving the Riemann zeta function
Keating and Snaith have a famous conjecture on the asymptotics of the
integral $\int_0^T |\zeta(\frac 12+it)|^{2k}\, dt$, where $\zeta$
denotes the Riemann zeta function. See page 510 of the book ...
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Etymology of cuspidal representations
In the literature on representation theory of $GL_2(\Bbb F_p)$ and $GL_2(\Bbb Q_p)$, the irreducible representations with trivial Jacquet module are often called "cuspidal" or "supercuspidal". Why are ...
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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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Zeroes of Maass forms
By a Maass form I just mean--maybe a bit loosely--any real analytic $\Bbb C$-valued function $f$ on the upper halfplane $\cal{H}$ which is automorphic of weight $k\in\Bbb Z$ with respect to a discrete ...
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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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Wedderburn's theorem for $\mathbb{Q}G$
Let $G$ be a finite group and let $\mathbb{Q}G=M_{n_1}(D_1)\times\cdots\times M_{n_k}(D_k)$ be the decomposition of $\mathbb{Q}G$ as a product of rings of matrices over divisions rings. Let $Z_i$ be ...
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What is miraculous about the mirabolic subgroup?
I recently asked this question about Euler subgroups and generalizing the automorphic theory of $\mathrm{GL}_n$ to a more general setting. My question here is more specific.
As mentioned there, the ...
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Why are $S$-arithmetic groups interesting?
Let $K$ be a number field and $S$ a finite set of valuations of $K$, including $\infty$.
Define the $S$-numbers $K_S$ to be the direct product $\prod_{s \in S} K_s$ where $K_s$ denotes the completion ...
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Matrix of cosecants appearing in equivariant index computations
In a computation of characters of certain representations of finite cyclic groups which appear as equivariant indices of Dirac operators (using the Atiyah-Bott fixed point formula, cf. [1, Theorem 8....
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modularity of algebraic varieties
Hello,
Are there any examples of varieties which are not Shimura varieties or abelian varieties
and whose L-functions have been shown to be a product of automorphic L-functions?
Thanks.
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Relation between $\xi$-cohomological and discrete series
Sometimes, results on automorphic representations are available only under local assumptions. Typically, one could require the representation to be a $\xi$-cohomological cuspidal representation, and I ...
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Atkin–Lehner operator for GL(3)?
Let $f$ be an automorphic form for $\Gamma_0(N)\subset SL(3,\mathbb{Z})$.
$\Gamma_0(N)=(a,b,c;d,e,f;g,h,i)\in SL(3,\mathbb{Z})|g=h=0(mod N)$
Is there any Atkin-Lehner operator for $\Gamma_0(N)$ ...
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Closed formula for some dimension
This question has a background from representation theory/homological algebra, but I state everything in elementary terms here:
Call an n-CNak an n-tupel $[c_0,c_1,...,c_{n-1}]$ where $c_0=c_1=...=c_{...
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Is a unitary representation always semisimple?
I have been reading the online lecture notes by Fiona Murnaghan
http://www.math.toronto.edu/murnaghan/courses/mat1197/notes.pdf
The first lemma in p.35 says that every unitary representation of ...
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local to global Galois representation
Let $\rho_p : \mbox{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_p / {\mathbb{Q}_p}) \to \mbox{GL}_n(\mathbb{Q}_p)$ be a de Rham $p$-adic representation. Can one find a representation $\rho : \mbox{Gal}(\overline{\...
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Generalizations/applications of a formula for the Dedekind zeta function?
I saw the following nice formula in an unpublished paper of H. Cohen. Let $L$ be a quartic field, whose Galois closure $\widetilde{L}$ has Galois group $S_4$. Denote the cubic resolvent field of $L$ ...
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Does anyone have an electronic copy of Waldspurger's "Sur les coefficients de Fourier des formes modulaires de poids demi-entier"?
Is there an electronic copy of Waldspurger's paper "Sur les coefficients de Fourier des formes modulaires de poids demi-entier" floating around the internet somewhere? This appeared in J. Pures Math. ...
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To what extent does the $(\mathfrak{g},K_{\infty})$ module determines the automorphic representation?
In this question, we will follow the notations and definitions from the book "Automorphic Representations and L-Functions for the General Linear Group" by Goldfeld and Hundley. For simplicity, let's ...
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partitions into odd parts vs hooks and symplectic contents
Given a partition $\lambda=(\lambda_1\geq\lambda_2\geq\dots)$, denote the conjugate partition by $\lambda'=(\lambda_1'\geq\lambda_2'\geq\dots)$. For example, if $\lambda=(4,2,2)$ then $\lambda'=(3,3,1,...
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Relation between Hecke operators and coefficient of L-functions
This question has its seed in this one by Gory, which found an enlightening answer but one of the comments kept me wondering. I am beginning to discover Hecke operators, and there appears to be an ...
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An infinite profinite group such that any $p$-adic representation has finite image
Fix a prime $ p $. We call an infinite profinite group $ G $ a Fontaine-Mazur group (with respect to $ p $) if every continuous homomorphism $ G\to {\rm GL}_n(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}_p) $ has finite ...
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Rankin-Selberg convolution and product of degrees
As I'm kinda obsessed with the Selberg class and because of the general converse conjecture, I'm still trying to get a rough idea of what automorphic representations and their L-functions as well as ...
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$\mathrm{Ext}^i(\pi_1, \pi_2)\neq0$ implies same central character
If $\pi_1$ and $\pi_2$ are two smooth admissible representations of $\operatorname{GL}_2(\mathbb{Q}_p)$ over $\overline{\mathbb{F}}_p$ with central characters. I want to prove that if $\pi_1$ has ...
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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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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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centralizer of a n-cyclic permutation matrix over F_2 in GL(n,2)
This is a continuation of this question, where I talked about the case $n=2^k$. Let $C$ be the $n\times n$-permutation matrix over $\mathbb{F}_2$ of the $n$-cycle. We needed to know the explicit ...
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Dimension sum "rules" in Lie algebras [closed]
tr;dr intro: I came up with this question when I couldn't remember how many terms are in an $E_7$-ish (representing $\bigotimes$ adjoint) clebsch. Tried it on $G_2$, $7 \bigotimes 14=7+...$ argh, is ...
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