English Toppage | Japanese Toppage
Location :
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ehime University
Date : February 17(Tue) - 20(Fri), 2009
Room : 303 (17th), The large conference room (18th-20th)
On the family of cyclic Galois extensions
We discuss how Galois cohomology leads to a descent-generic cyclic polynomial of degree n, with minimal number of parameters, under certain conditions of base field. Then we prove that the splitting field extension of that polynomial is a versal element for the first Galois cohomology functor with coefficient cyclic group of order n.
A uniform open image theorem for p-adic representations of etale fundamental groups of curves (joint work with Akio Tamagawa - R.I.M.S.)
Let k be a finitely generated field of characteristic 0, X a smooth, separated, geometrically connected curve over k with fundamental group P and geometric fundamental group P^{geo}. Fix a prime p and a Z_p-module T of finite rank over which P acts through a representation \rho. Write G for the image of P and G^{geo} for the image of P^{geo} in Aut(T). Assume that Lie(G^{geo})^{ab}=0 (this occurs for instance if \rho is the representation arising from the action of P on the p-adic generic Tate module of an abelian scheme A over X). Given a k -rational point x on X set G_x:=\rho\circ x(\Gamma_k), where x:\Gamma_k -> P is the splitting induced by x. The main result I am going to discuss is the following uniform open image theorem: With the above assumptions, the set X_{\rho} of all k-rational points x such that G_x is not open in G is finite and there exists an integer B_{\rho} such that [G:G_x]\leq B_{\rho} for all k-rational points x not in X_{\rho}. I will also give a strong variant of this result and applications to uniform boundedness of p-primary torsion on abelian varieties.
An example of the Ihara zeta function associated to a normal covering of a graph
There is a zeta function associated to a graph. This function relates to the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of the graph. In 1988, the notion of the Ramanujan graphs was introduced by Lubotzky, Phillips and Sarnak. Ramanujan graphs are ``good'' graphs not only in communication network but also in number theory, since they have proper eigenvalues. There is a probrem in constructing a family of Ramanujan graphs with a fixed regularity. We will construct a family of graphs with a fixed regularity, and study their Ramanujency.
Archimedean Whittaker functions and archimedean zeta integrals
We will report recent progress on explicit formulas of Whittaker functions over archimedean local fields and their application to computation of archimedean zeta integrals for certain automorphic L-functions.
On the Sato-Tate conjecture for elliptic curves over number fields which are not necessarily totally real
Recently, based on a joint work with Clozel, Harris and Shepherd-Barron, Taylor proved the Sato-Tate conjecture for elliptic curves over totally real fields whose j-invariants are not algebraic integers. In this talk, I give an argument on the automorphy of l-adic Galois representations which enables us prove few more cases of the Sato-Tate conjecture for elliptic curves over number fields. The base fields are not necessarily totally real, but both the elliptic curves and the base fields should satisfy some very restrictive conditions. This result might be "well-known" for specialists, but it seems of some interest for some other applications concerning analytic properties of L-functions (e.g. the Tate conjecture for Hilbert modular surfaces, etc.).
Non-cuspidality outside the middle degree of $\ell$-adic cohomology of the Lubin-Tate tower
The Lubin-Tate space is the moduli space of deformations of a fixed one-dimensional formal O-module of finite height, where O is the ring of integers of a non-archimedean local field F. By using Drinfeld level structures, we may construct a projective system of moduli spaces over the Lubin-Tate space, which is called the Lubin-Tate tower. The representation obtained as the vanishing cycle cohomology of the Lubin-Tate tower is very interesting. In fact, it realizes the local Langlands correspondence (of the general linear group) and the local Jacquet-Langlands correspondence over F. In this talk, we give an easy and direct proof of the fact that no supercuspidal representation appears as a subquotient of such representations unless they are obtained from the cohomology of the middle degree. This fact has previously been proved by Boyer and Faltings by using the relation between the Lubin-Tate tower and an integral model of a certain Shimura variety.
Fourier expansion of Arakawa lifting and central L-values
We have an explicit formula for Fourier coefficients of Arakawa lifting, i.e. a theta lift from a pair of an elliptic cusp form f and an automorphic form f' on a definite quaternion algebra to a cusp form on GSp(1; 1) generating quaternionic discrete series at the Archimedean place. Up to an elementary constant, such Fourier coefficient is a product of toral integrals of f and f' with respect to a Hecke character \chi of an imaginary quadratic field. A well-known formula of Waldspurger says that square norms of such toral integrals are proportional to the central values of \chi-twisted L-functions for quadratic base change of f or f'. Our next task is to explicitly determine the constant of proportionality for the square norms of the toral integrals and the central L-values. This leads to an explicit constant of proportionality for the square norm of a Fourier coefficient of Arakawa lift and a product of the central L-values attached to f and f'. In this talk we will report the recent progress of our study for that. This is a joint work with Atsushi Murase.
Class number asymptotics for fundamental discriminants
Since the early studies of Gauß class numbers have fascinated mathematicians. One of the important questions concerning class numbers is the following: Let $h_d$ be the class number of primitive binary quadratic forms of discriminant $d$ whose coefficients belong to $\Z$. What is the behaviour of the mean value of $h_d$? So far mathematicians have not been able to solve this problem. There only exist results that give the asymptotic behaviour of $\sum_{0<d\leq N}h_d \log\epsilon_d$ as $N\to\infty$. Here $\epsilon_d$ is the fundamental solution of Pellfs equation $t^2-du^2 = 4$. Sarnak showed that the problem of separating the class number from the regulator disappears if we order the terms of the sum by the size of the regulator. In this talk we will show how to obtain a similar result if we restrict ourselves to discriminants that belong to a given progression or are fundamental discriminants.
(1) Introduction to Iwasawa theory
This is a preparation of the second talk. We will introduce the basic concepts in Iwasawa theory and explain the Iwasawa main conjecture for \Q (the simplest case and the original conjecture of Iwasawa) for non-experts.
(2) Iwasawa main conjecture for CM elliptic curves at supersingular primes
We generalize the Pollack-Rubin proof of the Iwasawa main conjecture for CM elliptic curves over Q at supersingular primes to CM elliptic curves over an abelian extension of the imaginary quadratic field given by CM. We will explain the precise set-up, how to construct plus/minus algebraic p-adic L-functions and plus/minus analytic p-adic L-functions and how they coincide. This is a joint work with Byoung Du Kim and Bei Zhang.
Generalized Albanese and duality
A generalized Albanese for a singular projective variety over an algebraically closed field was constructed by Esnault, Viehweg and Srinivas as a universal regular quotient of a relative Chow group of zero cycles modulo rational equivalence. This is a smooth connected commutative algebraic group (not in general an abelian variety), satisfying a universal mapping property. For the talk, we suppose the characteristic of the base field is zero. We ask for a dual of this gen. Albanese and a functorial description.
Orbit structures of exceptional type prehomogeneous vector spaces
The notion of prehomogeneous vector space (PV) was introduced by M. Sato. Many intersting PVs appear as nilpotent orbits of certain simple algebraic groups. For example, the space of binary quadratic forms (GL(2), sym^2 k^2) arises as nilpotent orbits for the Sigel parabolic subgroup of Sp(4) (the symplectic group of rank 2). Among them, PVs those related to exceptional groups have extremely rich orbit structures from arithmetic point of view. In this talk we explain such orbit structures and possible applications to number theory.
Epsilon factor of Fermat curves
Coleman gave a stable model of Fermat curve and calculated the Jacobi sum]Hecke character explicitly in 1988 using rigid geometry and CM theory. In my talk, I would like to formulate three conjectures about refined conductor formula, and twist formula and mod p formula for epsilon factor. In the Fermat curve case, we will prove these conjectures. We introduce another proof of a special case of Coleman's result by using $\ell$-adic etale cohomology and Kato's ramification theory.
Evaluations of higher depth determinants of Laplacians
For a "good" operator T, higher depth determinants of T are defined by derivatives at non-positive integers of the spectral zeta function attached to T. In this talk, we will evaluate the higher depth determinants of Laplacians on both compact Riemann surfaces with negative constant curvature and higher dimensional spheres (the former is a joint work with Nobushige Kurokawa and Masato Wakayama).
Zeta functions and cone decompositions for totally real fields
To investigate zeta functions of a totally real number field $F$, Shintani introduced a cone decomposition of the totally positive part of $F\otimes\mathbb{R}$ which is compatible with the action of units. When one uses this method, some combinatorial arguments about these cones enter into the study of zeta functions. To illustrate this point, I want to explain some properties of Shintani's ray class invariants (constructed from partial zeta functions) and their proofs.
Periods and computational complexity of real numbers
Kontsevich and Zagier introduced the notion of "Periods", which contains all algebraic numbers and several transcendental quantities and considered to be an important class of complex numbers. In this talk, I will give a few remarks on periods from the view point of computational complexity of Cauchy sequences.