In the beginning: Langlands' doctoral thesis

2019/11/11 by Robinson, Derek W
#FOS: Mathematics #Functional Analysis (math.FA)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1911.04050

Abstract

This is a draft version of an invited article for a forthcoming book `The genesis of Langlands Program', eds. Julia Mueller and Freydoon Shahidi, which will be published in the London Mathematics Society Lecture Notes Series. It gives a description of the background and content of the unpublished doctoral thesis of Robert Langlands with many alternative explanations and proofs of the principal results.

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