A venue for invited and local speakers to present their research on topics surrounding algebraic geometry and number theory, broadly conceived. All meetings start at 14:10 sharp and end at 15:10. Meetings are held in 201. We expect to broadcast most meetings over Zoom at the URL
Harish Chandra developed representation theory on real and p-adic groups using analytic objects such as matrix coefficients and his distributional characters.
He found that density properties of these distributions in the class of all invariant distributions plays an important role in Establishing basic results of Harmonic analysis on the group. Moving to G-Homogeneous spaces, spherical characters are distributions that play an important role in the relative trace formula. These objects were studied extensively in special cases and important results were obtained by Rallis and Rader who formulated
natural density problems regarding these distributions. In a joint work with A. Aizenbud (Weizmann) and J. Bernstein (Tel-Aviv), we introduce some algebraic methods based on the concept of Cohen-Macaulay and Bernstein’s theory of representations of p-adic groups to tackle some of these density problems in the -adic case.
In my presentation, I will not assume knowledge of Bernsein’s theory or knowledge of Harmonic analysis on p-adic groups.
The Kazhdan–Lusztig isomorphism, relating the affine Hecke algebra of a p-adic group to the equivariant K-theory of the Steinberg variety of its Langlands dual, played a key role in the proof of the Deligne–Langlands conjectures concerning the classification of tamely ramified irreducible representations. In this talk, I will recall the statement of the Kazhdan–Lusztig isomorphism. I will also introduce the relative Langlands duality and propose a conjectural relative version of the Kazhdan–Lusztig isomorphism. I will focus on specific examples which we can prove.
Chromatic homotopy theory aims to study cohomology theories through a hierarchy of simpler layers, organized by a notion called height. In this talk I will introduce the basic ideas behind this viewpoint and explain two approaches to analyzing these monochromatic layers: the classical K(n)-local category, which is closely related to one-dimensional formal group laws, and the T(n)-local or telescopic category, which is more directly tied to periodic phenomena in the stable homotopy groups of spheres.
I will then describe a framework for understanding periodicity inside the chromatic layers, and explain how this allows one to lift Picard elements from the K(n)-local setting to the telescopic setting. Finally, I will present an application to chromatic Galois theory, leading to the construction of a first example of a non-abelian Galois extension in the T(n)-local world.
Locally analytic representations of p-adic Lie groups with Q_p coefficients are powerful tools in p-adic Hodge theory and the p-adic Langlands program. This perspective reveals important differential structures, such as the Sen and Casimir operators. A few years ago, Rodrigues Jacinto and Rodriguez Camargo developed a “solid” version of this theory using the language of condensed mathematics, which provides more robust homological tools (comparison theorems, spectral sequences…) for studying these representations. This talk will present work that extends this solid theory to a much broader class of mixed characteristic coefficients, such as F_p((X)) or Z_p[[X]]<p/x>, as well as semilinear representations. I will conclude by exploring how these ideas relate to mixed characteristic phenomena in p-adic Hodge theory and the Langlands program.
We will describe a general strategy for proving the algebraicity of the Hodge Weil classes on abelian varieties of Weil type. The latter are even dimensional abelian varieties admitting a suitable embedding of a CM number field in their rational endomorphism ring. We will describe the implementation of the strategy for abelian varieties of dimension 4 and 6, and why it implies the Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties of dimension at most 5.
Harish Chandra developed representation theory on real and p-adic groups using analytic objects such as matrix coefficients and his distributional characters.
He found that density properties of these distributions in the class of all invariant distributions plays an important role in Establishing basic results of Harmonic analysis on the group. Moving to G-Homogeneous spaces, spherical characters are distributions that play an important role in the relative trace formula. These objects were studied extensively in special cases and important results were obtained by Rallis and Rader who formulated
natural density problems regarding these distributions. In a joint work with A. Aizenbud (Weizmann) and J. Bernstein (Tel-Aviv), we introduce some algebraic methods based on the concept of Cohen-Macaulay and Bernstein’s theory of representations of p-adic groups to tackle some of these density problems in the -adic case.
In my presentation, I will not assume knowledge of Bernsein’s theory or knowledge of Harmonic analysis on p-adic groups.