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Jacquet-Langlands and a new R=T conjecture

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Persiflage

It is somewhat mysterious how one should formulate the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence integrally, particularly in the presence of torsion classes. Even the classical case has many subtleties including for example some results in this paper of Ribet. In the case of … Continue reading →

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A strange continuity

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Persiflage

Returning to matters OPAQUE, here is the following problem which may well now be approachable by known methods. Let me phrase the conjecture in the case when the prime p = 2 and the level N = 1. As we … Continue reading →

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Irregular Lifts, Part II

Posted on October 28, 2018 by Persiflage

This is the global counterpart to the last post. I was going to write this post in a more general setting, but the annoyances of general reductive groups got the better of me. Suppose we fix the following: A number … Continue reading →

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Fan Mail

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Persiflage

Edit: A previous version of this post has been edited upon request. Somewhat less salaciously, I received a Christmas card from an academic couple of whom I am absolutely sure I have never met. (I just checked my mailbox at … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Paris

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Persiflage

Nothing is more pretentious or annoying than when an American offers, uninvited, their opinions of Paris. Here, then, are some of mine. Starting the day with a two hour lecture on elliptic integals:OUI: Who does not get a slight frisson … Continue reading →

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Return to Northwestern

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Persiflage

Today I returned to Northwestern, taking part in both the communal faculty lunch and the post prandial espresso. Jared Wunsch worked his magic on the Silvia (Rancilio) to pour one of the best espressos I have had in a very … Continue reading →

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Report from MSRI and Berkeley

Posted on March 7, 2017 by Persiflage

Having attended last Friday’s academic sponsors’ day at MSRI, I can provide a little more context concerning the issues expressed last time. But first, it’s time for the current edition of NAME AND SHAME: There are currently 105 universities which … Continue reading →

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The class number 100 problem

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Persiflage

Some time ago, Mark Watkins busted open the “class number n” problem for smallish n, finding all imaginary quadratic fields of class number at most 100 (the original paper is here) Although the paper describes the method in detail, it … Continue reading →

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Central Extensions and Weight One Forms

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Persiflage

As mentioned in the comments to the last post, Kevin Buzzard and Alan Lauder have made an extensive computation of weight one modular forms in characteristic zero (see also here). Thinking about what that data might contain, I wondered about … Continue reading →

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Ventotene, Part II

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Persiflage

I promised to return to a more mathematical summary of the conference in Ventotene, and indeed I shall do so in the next two posts. One of the themes of the conference was bounding the order of the torsion subgroup … Continue reading →

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