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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791960703321

Autore

Harris Michael

Titolo

The Geometry and Cohomology of Some Simple Shimura Varieties. (AM-151), Volume 151 / / Richard Taylor, Michael Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2001]

©2002

ISBN

1-4008-3720-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

Annals of Mathematics Studies ; ; 163

Disciplina

516.3/5

Soggetti

Mathematics

Shimura varieties

MATHEMATICS / Number Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter I. Preliminaries -- Chapter II. Barsotti-Tate groups -- Chapter III. Some simple Shimura varieties -- Chapter IV. Igusa varieties -- Chapter V. Counting Points -- Chapter VI. Automorphic forms -- Chapter VII. Applications -- Appendix. A result on vanishing cycles / Berkovich, V. G. -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book aims first to prove the local Langlands conjecture for GLn over a p-adic field and, second, to identify the action of the decomposition group at a prime of bad reduction on the l-adic cohomology of the "simple" Shimura varieties. These two problems go hand in hand. The results represent a major advance in algebraic number theory, finally proving the conjecture first proposed in Langlands's 1969 Washington lecture as a non-abelian generalization of local class field theory. The local Langlands conjecture for GLn(K), where K is a p-adic field, asserts the existence of a correspondence, with certain formal properties, relating n-dimensional representations of the Galois group of K with the representation theory of the locally compact group GLn(K). This book constructs a candidate for such a local Langlands correspondence on the vanishing cycles attached to the bad reduction over the integer ring of K of a certain family of Shimura



varieties. And it proves that this is roughly compatible with the global Galois correspondence realized on the cohomology of the same Shimura varieties. The local Langlands conjecture is obtained as a corollary. Certain techniques developed in this book should extend to more general Shimura varieties, providing new instances of the local Langlands conjecture. Moreover, the geometry of the special fibers is strictly analogous to that of Shimura curves and can be expected to have applications to a variety of questions in number theory.