Drinfeld modular forms, Hecke operators, and class number congruences

Abstract: The first part of this talk will be an introduction to Drinfeld modular forms of rank 2. Then I'll explain how the analogue of the Eichler-Selberg trace formula relates Hecke operators to class numbers mod $p$, and discuss several applications and open questions.

algebraic geometrynumber theory

Audience: researchers in the topic

MIT number theory seminar

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