Tag Archives: Liang Xiao

What the slopes are

Let \(f\) be a classical modular eigenform of weight \(k\), for example, \(f = \Delta\). The Ramanujan conjecture states that the Hecke eigenvalues \(a_p\) satisfy the bound \(|a_p| \le 2 p^{(k-1)/2}.\) A slightly fancier but cleaner way of saying this … Continue reading

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New Results in modularity, Christmas Update II

Just like last year, once again saint Nick has brought us a bounty of treasures related to Galois representations and automorphic forms in the final week of the year. First there was this paper by Newton and Thorne, proving, among … Continue reading

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More or less OPAQUE

I recently talked with Lynnelle Ye (a soon to be graduating student of Mark Kisin) for a few hours about her thesis and related mathematics. In her thesis, she generalizes (in part) the work Liu-Wan-Xiao on the boundary (halo) of … Continue reading

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Chenevier on the Eigencurve

Today I wanted to mention a theorem of Chenever about components of the Eigencurve. Let \(\mathcal{W}\) denote weight space (which is basically a union of discs), and let \(\pi: \mathcal{E} \rightarrow \mathcal{W}\) be the Coleman-Mazur eigencurve together with its natural … Continue reading

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Scholze on Torsion, Part IV

This is a continuation of Part I, Part II, and Part III. I was planning to start talking about Chapter IV, instead, this will be a very soft introduction to a few lines on page 72. At this point, we … Continue reading

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