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Locally induced representations

Today is a post about work of my student Chengyang Bao. Recall that Lehmer’s conjecture asks whether \(\tau(p) \ne 0\) for all primes \(p\), where \(\Delta = q \prod_{n=1}^{\infty} (1 – q^n)^{24} = \sum \tau(n) q^n\) is Ramanujan’s modular form. … Continue reading

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Review of Buzzard-Gee

This is a review of the paper “Slopes of Modular Forms” submitted for publication in a Simons symposium proceedings volume. tl;dr: This paper is a nice survey article on questions concerning the slopes of modular forms. Buzzard has given a … Continue reading

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