Tag Archives: Richard Taylor

The horizontal Breuil-Mezard conjecture

Postdoc hiring season will be upon us soon! I have two excellent graduate students who will be applying for academic jobs soon, Chengyang Bao and Andreea Iorga. I have mentioned Chengyang’s first project before here and an introduction to the … Continue reading

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Potential Automorphy for GL(n)

Fresh on the arXiv, a nice new paper by Lie Qian proving potential automorphy results for ordinary Galois representations \(\rho: G_F \rightarrow \mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbf{Q}_p)\) of regular weight \([0,1,\ldots,n-1]\) for arbitrary CM fields \(F\). The key step in light of the 10-author … Continue reading

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Chidambaram on genus two curves, II

We now continue a series of posts on the work of my student Shiva Chidambaram. (Click here for part I.) Today I would like to discuss another project with Shiva that was also joint with David Roberts (no, not David … Continue reading

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More on Lehmer’s Conjecture

Lehmer said it was a “natural question” whether there existed an integer such that \(\tau(n)=0\) or not. I’ve wondered a little bit recently about how reasonable this is. (See this post.) The historical context is presumably related to the fact … Continue reading

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Read my NSF proposal

Since this is NSF season, I took the opportunity to go back and look at some of my old proposals. I am definitely too shy to put my *most recent* proposal online, but I thought it might be interesting to … Continue reading

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The Journal of Number Theory experiment

The Journal of Number Theory has been (for some time) the standard “specialist” journal for number theory papers. By that, I mean it was a home for reasonably good number theory papers which were not (necessarily) good enough for some … Continue reading

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Tips for new postdocs

In my role as junior hiring chair, I’ve been thinking a little bit about how a (R1) institution can best serve its postdocs. Many find the transition from graduate student life to being a postdoc somewhat of a rude shock. … Continue reading

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Local-global compatibility for imaginary quadratic fields

One of the key steps in the 10-author paper is to prove results on local-global compatibility for Galois representations associated to torsion classes. The results proved in that paper, unfortunately, fall well-short of the optimal desired local-global compatibility statement, because … Continue reading

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New Results In Modularity, Christmas Update

It’s a Christmas miracle! Keen watchers of this blog will be happy to learn that the 10 author paper discussed here and here is now available. (And just in case you also missed it, you can also find the other … Continue reading

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Update on Sato-Tate for abelian surfaces

Various people have asked me for an update on the status of the Sato-Tate conjecture for abelian surfaces in light of recent advances in modularity lifting theorems. My student Noah Taylor has exactly been undertaking this task, and this post … Continue reading

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