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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154743703321

Autore

Arthur James

Titolo

Simple Algebras, Base Change, and the Advanced Theory of the Trace Formula. (AM-120), Volume 120 / / Laurent Clozel, James Arthur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016]

©1989

ISBN

1-4008-8240-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 351

Classificazione

SK 240

Disciplina

512/.2

Soggetti

Representations of groups

Trace formulas

Automorphic forms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Local Results -- Chapter 2. The Global Comparison -- Chapter 3. Base Change -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

A general principle, discovered by Robert Langlands and named by him the "functoriality principle," predicts relations between automorphic forms on arithmetic subgroups of different reductive groups. Langlands functoriality relates the eigenvalues of Hecke operators acting on the automorphic forms on two groups (or the local factors of the "automorphic representations" generated by them). In the few instances where such relations have been probed, they have led to deep arithmetic consequences. This book studies one of the simplest general problems in the theory, that of relating automorphic forms on arithmetic subgroups of GL(n,E) and GL(n,F) when E/F is a cyclic extension of number fields. (This is known as the base change problem for GL(n).) The problem is attacked and solved by means of the trace formula. The book relies on deep and technical results obtained by several authors during the last twenty years. It could not serve as an introduction to them, but, by giving complete references to the published literature, the authors have made the work useful to a reader who does not know all the aspects of the theory of automorphic forms.