The conjectures of Gan, Gross, and Prasad
Benedict Gross (UCSD)
Abstract: I will review the conjectures I made with Wee Teck Gan and Dipendra Prasad, which provide a bridge between number theory and representation theory. Besides stating the various conjectures and reviewing the main results that have been obtained in this direction, I'll make some historical remarks on how we came to formulate them.
number theory
Audience: researchers in the discipline
CHAT (Career, History And Thoughts) series
Series comments: The CHAT series invite established professors to talk about either (1) their math career in general (2) their theorems or theories, but explained from a personal and historical perspective, like how they came up with the problem, what the Aha! moment was like, how the problem changes from its initial form to the published rigorous form.
The idea is that instead of talking about their latest theorems, the speakers would take a step back and talk about the trajectory of an idea, the path to the discovery of a theorem, the influence of ideas learned through a paper or a chance conversation with a colleague, and the hazards met and overcome along the way.
| Organizers: | Chi-Yun Hsu*, Shekhar Khare, Henri Darmon |
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