Joint IAS/PU Number Theory

Iwasawa theory and Bloch-Kato conjecture for unitary groups

Xin Wan
Morningside Center of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
May 21, 2020
We describe a new method to study Eisenstein family and Iwasawa theory on unitary groups over totally real fields of general signatures. As a consequence we prove that if the central L-value of a cuspidal eigenform on the unitary group twisted by a CM character is 0, then the corresponding Selmer group has positive rank. The method also has a byproduct the p-adic functional equations for p-adic L-functions and p-adic families of Eisenstein series on unitary groups.

On triple product L functions

Jayce Robert Getz
Duke University
May 7, 2020
Establishing the conjectured analytic properties of triple product L-functions is a crucial case of Langlands functoriality. However, little is known. I will present work in progress on the case of triples of automorphic representations on GL_3; in some sense this is the smallest case that appears out of reach via standard techniques. The approach is based on the beautiful fibration method of Braverman and Kazhdan for constructing Schwartz spaces and proving analogues of the Poisson summation formula.

Eulerianity of Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms

Henrik Gustafsson
Member, School of Mathematics
April 30, 2020
The factorization of Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms plays an important role in a wide range of topics, from the study of L-functions to the interpretation of scattering amplitudes in string theory. In this talk I will present a transfer theorem which derives the Eulerianity of certain Fourier coefficients from that of another coefficient. I will also discuss some applications of this theorem to Fourier coefficients of automorphic forms in minimal and next-to-minimal representations.

Local-global compatibility in the crystalline case

Ana Caraiani
Imperial College
April 16, 2020
Let F be a CM field. Scholze constructed Galois representations associated to classes in the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces for GL_n/F with p-torsion coefficients. These Galois representations are expected to satisfy local-global compatibility at primes above p. Even the precise formulation of this property is subtle in general, and uses Kisin’s potentially semistable deformation rings. However, this property is crucial for proving modularity lifting theorems. I will discuss joint work with J.

On the Kudla-Rapoport conjecture

Chao Li
Columbia University
April 9, 2020
The Kudla-Rapoport conjecture predicts a precise identity between the arithmetic intersection number of special cycles on unitary Rapoport-Zink spaces and the derivative of local representation densities of hermitian forms. It is a key local ingredient to establish the arithmetic Siegel-Weil formula and the arithmetic Rallis inner product formula, relating the height of special cycles on Shimura varieties to the derivative of Siegel Eisenstein series and L-functions. We will motivate this conjecture, explain a proof and discuss global applications.

Density conjecture for horizontal families of lattices in SL(2)

Mikolaj Fraczyk
Member, School of Mathematics
April 2, 2020
Let G be a real semi-simple Lie group with an irreducible unitary representation \pi. The non-temperedness of \pi is measured by the parameter p(\pi) which is defined as the infimum of p\geq 2 such that \pi has matrix coefficients in L^p(G). Sarnak and Xue conjectured that for any arithmetic lattice \Gamma \subset G and principal congruence subgroup \Gamma(q)\subset \Gamma, the multiplicity of \pi in L^2(G/\Gamma(q)) is at most O(V(q)^{2/p(\pi)+\epsilon}) where V(q) is the covolume of \Gamma(q).