School of Mathematics

Let $X \subset \R^N$ be a Borel set, $\mu$ a Borel probability measure on $X$ and $T:X \to X$ a Lipschitz and injective map. Fix $k \in \N$ greater than the (Hausdorff) dimension of $X$ and assume that the set of $p$-periodic points has dimension smaller than $p$ for $p=1, \ldots, k-1$. We prove that for a typical polynomial perturbation $\tilde{h}$ of a given Lipschitz map $h : X \to \R$, the $k$-delay coordinate map $x \mapsto (\tilde{h}(x), \tilde{h}(Tx), \ldots, \tilde{h}(T^{k-1}x))$ is injective on a set of full measure $\mu$.

The singularities in the reduction modulo $p$ of the modular
curve $Y_0(p)$ are visualized by the famous picture of two curves
meeting transversally at the supersingular points. It is a fundamental
question to understand the singularities which arise in the reductions
modulo $p$ of integral models of Shimura varieties. For PEL type
Shimura varieties with parahoric level structure at $p$, this question
has been studied since the 1990's. Due to the recent construction of

The Langlands and Fontaine–Mazur conjectures in number theory describe when an automorphic representation f arises geometrically, meaning that there is a smooth projective variety X, or more generally a Chow motive M in the cohomology of X, such that there is an equality of L-functions L(M,s) = L(f,s). We explicitly describe how to produce such a variety X and Chow motive M in the case of powers of certain automorphic representations, called algebraic Hecke characters. This is joint work with J. Lang.

On an elliptic curve $y^2=x^3+ax+b$, the points with coordinates $(x,y)$ in a given number field form a finitely generated abelian group. One natural question is how the rank of this group changes when changing the number field.