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Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Oct
04
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Spacing and a Large Sieve Type Inequality for Roots of a Cubic Congruence
Matthew Welsh
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine 214

Proving the equidistribution of roots of quadratic congruences, with strong estimates on the Weyl sums, is one of the most spectacular applications of the spectral theory of automorphic forms to arithmetic. See for example Duke, Friedlander and...

Oct
11
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Explicit formulae for Stark Units and Hilbert's 12th problem
Samit Dasgupta
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Hilbert’s 12th problem is to provide explicit analytic formulae for elements generating the maximal abelian extension of a given number field. In this talk I will describe an approach to Hilbert’s 12th that involves proving exact p-adic formulae for...

Oct
18
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Honda-Tate theory for Shimura varieties
Mark Kisin
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214

Honda-Tate theory says that every abelian variety mod p is isogenous to the reduction of a CM abelian variety.We will discuss the analogous statement for isogeny classes on Shimura varieties, and explain what is conjectured and what is known.

Oct
25
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Irreducible components of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties and orbital integrals
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties (ADLV) naturally arise in the study of Shimura varieties and Rapoport-Zink spaces; their irreducible components give rise to interesting algebraic cycles on the special fiber of Shimura varieties. We prove a...

Nov
08
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Epsilon dichotomy for linear models
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

Saito--Tunnell theorem is a local version of Waldspurger's formula, relating the existence of E^\times invariant linear forms on representation of GL_2 to local root numbers. I present a generalization of this which relates the existence of GL_n(E)...

Nov
15
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Hyperfields, Ordered Blueprints, and Moduli Spaces of Matroids
Matt Baker
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214

I will begin with a gentle introduction to hyperrings and hyperfields (originally introduced by Krasner for number-theoretic reasons), and then discuss a far-reaching generalization, Oliver Lorscheid’s theory of ordered blueprints. Two key examples...

Nov
27
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Good and semi-stable reductions of Shimura varieties
4:30pm|Fine Hall 314

It is known that the modular curve has good reduction at $p$ if the level structure is prime to $p$. If the level structure is of $\Gamma_0(p)$-type, then the modular curve has semi-stable reduction. For general Shimura varieties, one may ask for...

Nov
29
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

The Lucky Logarithmic Derivative
Will Sawin
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We study the function field analogue of a classical problem in analytic number theory on the sums of the generalized divisor function in short intervals, in the limit as the degrees of the polynomials go to infinity. As a corollary, we calculate...

Dec
04
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

p-adic cohomology of the Drinfeld half-space
2:00pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 1201

I will present a computation of the integral p-adic etale cohomology of the Drinfeld half-space. Via integral p-adic Hodge Theory of Bhatt-Morrow-Scholze this reduces to a computation of the integral de Rham cohomology and this can be done...

Dec
06
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Slopes in eigenvarieties for definite unitary groups
Lynnelle Ye
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The study of eigenvarieties began with Coleman and Mazur, who constructed the first eigencurve, a rigid analytic space parametrizing $p$-adic modular Hecke eigenforms. Since then various authors have constructed eigenvarieties for automorphic forms...

Dec
13
2018

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Nearby cycles over general bases and duality
Weizhe Zheng
4:30pm|Fine Hall 214

Over one-dimensional bases, Gabber and Beilinson proved theorems on the commutation of the nearby cycle functor and the vanishing cycle functor with duality. In this talk, I will explain a way to unify the two theorems, confirming a prediction of...

Jan
22
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

The Eigencurve at Eisenstein weight one points
Alice Pozzi
4:30pm|West Building Lecture Hall

In 1973, Serre observed that the Hecke eigenvalues of Eisenstein series can be p-adically interpolated. In other words, Eisenstein series can be viewed as specializations of a p-adic family parametrized by the weight. The notion of p-adic variations...

Jan
31
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Upper bounds for constant slope p-adic families of modular forms
John Bergdall
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

This talk is concerned with the radius of convergence of p-adic families of modular forms --- q-series over a p-adic disc whose specialization to certain integer points is the q-expansion of a classical Hecke eigenform of level p. Numerical...

Feb
07
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

p-adic integration and geometric stabilization.
Dimitry Wyss
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

I will explain a new proof of the geometric stabilization theorem for Hitchin fibers, a key ingredient in Ngô's proof of the fundamental lemma. Our approach relies on ideas of Denef-Loeser and Batyrev on p-adic integration and Langlands duality for...

Feb
14
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

An Application of a Conjecture of Mazur-Tate to Supersingular Elliptic Curves
Emmanuel Lecouturier and Emmanuel Lecouturier
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In 1987, Barry Mazur and John Tate formulated refined conjectures of the "Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer type", and one of these conjectures was essentially proved in the prime conductor case by Ehud de Shalit in 1995. One of the main objects in de...

Feb
21
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Automorphy of mod 3 representations over CM fields
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine 214

Wiles's proof of the modularity of semistable elliptic curves over the rationals uses the Langlands-Tunnell theorem as a starting point, implying that the mod 3 Galois representation attached to the elliptic curve arises from a modular form of...

Feb
28
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Derived structures controlling representations
Carl Wang-Erickson
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The point of this talk is to give three examples of derived structures influencing representations that have connections with number theory. These structures arise from the differential graded algebra of group cochains valued in the endomorphism...

Mar
07
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Special cycles on orthogonal Shimura varieties
Eugenia Rosu
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

Extending on the work of Kudla-Millson and Yuan-Zhang-Zhang, together with Yott we are constructing special divisors for a specific GSpin Shimura variety. We further construct a generating series that has as coefficients the cohomology classes...

Mar
14
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Local aspects of Venkatesh's thesis.
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The thesis of Akshay Venkatesh obtains a Beyond Endoscopy'' proof of stable functorial transfer from tori to ${\rm SL}(2)$, by means of the Kuznetsov formula. In this talk, I will show that there is a local statement that underlies this work; namely...

Mar
28
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Stronger Arithmetic Equivalence
Andrew Sutherland
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

Number fields with the same Dedekind zeta function are said to be arithmetically equivalent. Such number fields necessarily have the same degree, discriminant, signature, Galois closure, and isomorphic unit groups, but may have different regulators...

Apr
04
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Singular moduli for real quadratic fields
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The theory of complex multiplication describes finite abelian extensions of imaginary quadratic number fields using singular moduli, which are special values of modular functions at CM points. I will describe joint work with Henri Darmon in the...

Apr
11
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Sato-Tate groups of abelian threefolds
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

The Sato-Tate group of an abelian variety A of dimension g defined over a number field is a compact real Lie subgroup of the unitary simplectic group of degree 2g that conjecturally governs the limiting distribution of the normalized Frobenius...

Apr
18
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

How does the rank of an elliptic curve grow in towers of number fields?
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

On an elliptic curve $y^2=x^3+ax+b$, the points with coordinates $(x,y)$ in a given number field form a finitely generated abelian group. One natural question is how the rank of this group changes when changing the number field. For the simplest...

Apr
25
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Jensen–Polya Program for the Riemann Hypothesis and Related Problems
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine 214

In 1927 Polya proved that the Riemann Hypothesis is equivalent to the hyperbolicity of Jensen polynomials for Riemann’s Xi-function. This hyperbolicity had only been proved for degrees d=1,2,3. We prove the hyperbolicity of all (but possibly...

May
02
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Singularities in reductions of Shimura varieties
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The singularities in the reduction modulo $p$ of the modular curve $Y_0(p)$ are visualized by the famous picture of two curves meeting transversally at the supersingular points. It is a fundamental question to understand the singularities which...

May
09
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Generalized Hasse-Herbrand functions
Isabel Leal
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

The classical Hasse-Herbrand function is an important object in ramification theory, related to higher ramification groups. In this talk, I will discuss generalizations of the Hasse-Herbrand function and go over some of their properties. These...

Sep
12
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Taking the Hecke algebra to its limits
Raphael Steiner
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We parametrise elements in the full Hecke algebra in a way such that the parametrisation represents a generic automorphic form. By convolving, we then arrive at pre-trace formulas which are modular in three variables. From here, various identities...

Sep
19
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

On the arithmetic of elliptic curves over quintic fields
Michele Fornea
4:30pm|*Princeton University, Fine 214*

Bhargava showed that 100% of quintic fields have non-solvable Galois closure. For this reason, the arithmetic of elliptic curves over such fields is beyond the reach of methods based on Heegner points. In this talk we will report on a joint work in...

Sep
26
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Golden Gates in PU(n) and the Density Hypothesis.
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In their seminal work from the 80’s, Lubotzky, Phillips and Sarnak gave explicit constructions of topological generators for PU(2) with optimal covering properties. In this talk I will describe some recent works that extend the construction of LPS...

Oct
03
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A stacky approach to crystalline (and prismatic) cohomology.
4:15pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The stacky approach was originated by Bhatt and Lurie. (But the possible mistakes in my talk are mine.)

Let X be a scheme over F_p. Many years ago Grothendieck and Berthelot defined the notion of crystal on X; moreover, they defined the notion of...

Oct
10
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Extremal cases of Rapoport-Zink spaces
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

This talk is about qualitative properties of the underlying scheme of Rapoport-Zink formal moduli spaces of p-divisible groups, resp. Shtukas. We single out those cases when the dimension of this underlying scheme is zero, resp. those where the...

Oct
17
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Geometric lifts of odd Galois representations
Stefan Patrikis
4:30pm|*Princeton University, Fine 214*

Let G be a reductive group. Following Gross, and generalizing Serre's classical notion in the two-dimensional case, I will define what it means for a G-valued representation of the Galois group of a (totallyreal) number field to be odd. This notion...

Oct
24
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A slice or two of a diagonal cubic: arithmetic stratification via the circle method
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

Some 25 years ago, as announced at a previous version of this seminar, Vaughan and the speaker obtained asymptotic upper and lower bounds for the number of non-trivial integral points on the Segre cubic x31+...+x36=x1+...+x6=0x_1^3+...+x_6^3=x_1+...

Nov
21
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Canonical integral models of Shimura varieties
George Pappas
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We will discuss the problem of constructing and characterizing uniquely, integral models of Shimura varieties over some primes where non-smooth reduction is expected.

Nov
25
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

On singularity properties of word maps and applications to probabilistic Waring type problems
Itay Glazer
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 314

We discuss some recent results on singularity properties of word maps and Lie algebra word maps on semisimple algebraic groups and semisimple Lie algebras, generalizing a work of Aizenbud-Avni done in the case of the commutator map. These...

Dec
03
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Thin groups and the arithmetic of imaginary quadratic fields
Katherine Stange
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

The Farey subdivision of the real line describes the action of PSL(2,Z) and gives a continued fraction algorithm approximating real numbers by rational numbers. Asmus Schmidt defined an analogue for the complex plane, depending on a choice of...

Dec
05
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Higher order uniformity of the Möbius function
Joni Teräväinen
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine 214

In a recent work, Matomäki, Radziwill and Tao showed that the Möbius function is discorrelated with linear exponential phases on almost all intervals of length $X^{\varepsilon}$. I will discuss joint work where we generalize this result to...

Dec
12
2019

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

The arithmetic fundamental lemma for unitary groups: an update
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine 214

This is an update on the talk I gave about 10 years ago on this seminar. The arithmetic Gan-Gross-Prasad (AGGP) conjecture, a high dimensional generalization of the Gross–Zagier theorem, relates the height pairing of arithmetic diagonal cycles on...

Jan
23
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Motivic Euler products in motivic statistics
Margaret Bilu
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

The Grothendieck group of varieties over a field k is the quotient of the free abelian group of isomorphism classes of varieties over k by the so-called cut-and-paste relations. It moreover has a ring structure coming from the product of varieties...

Jan
30
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Eisenstein series and the cubic moment for PGL(2)
Paul Nelson
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We will discuss how to study the cubic moment of any family of automorphic L-functions on PGL(2) using regularized diagonal periods of Eisenstein series, following a strategy suggested by Michel--Venkatesh. Applications include generalizations to...

Feb
06
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Supersingular main conjectures, Sylvester's conjecture and Goldfeld's conjecture
Daniel Kriz
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

In this talk, I formulate and prove a new Rubin-type Iwasawa main conjecture for imaginary quadratic fields in which p is inert or ramified, as well as a Perrin-Riou type Heegner point main conjecture for certain supersingular CM elliptic curves...

Feb
13
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Moduli spaces of shtukas over function fields
4:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101

We present some work in progress, on moduli spaces of Drinfeld shtukas. These spaces are the function field analogous to Shimura varieties. In fact they are more versatile; there are r-legged versions for any r. Tate's conjecture predicts some...

Feb
20
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Isolation of L^2 spectrum and application to Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture
Yifeng Liu
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

In this talk, we will introduce a new technique of isolating the cuspidal part, or more general cuspidal components, from the $L^2$ spectrum on the spectral side of the trace formula. As an application, we prove the global Gan-Gross-Prasad and...

Feb
27
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

A p-adic monodromy theorem for de Rham local systems
4:30pm|Simonyi 101

Every smooth proper algebraic variety over a p-adic field is expected to have semistable model after passing to a finite extension. This conjecture is open in general, but its analogue for Galois representations, the p-adic monodromy theorem, is...

Mar
05
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Euler system, Eisenstein congruences and the p-adic Langlands correspondence
Eric Urban
4:30pm|Princeton University, Fine Hall 214

I will discuss how the use of the p-adic Langlands correspondence for GL_2(Q_p) allows to study Eisenstein congruences of various weight, level and slopes in order to construct Euler systems. I will discuss the GL(2)-case with some details and give...

Mar
26
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Wiles defect for Hecke algebras that are not complete intersections
4:30pm|https://theias.zoom.us/j/280491607

In his work on modularity theorems, Wiles proved a numerical criterion for a map of rings R->T to be an isomorphism of complete intersections. In addition to proving modularity theorems, this numerical criterion also implies a connection between the...

Apr
02
2020

Joint IAS/Princeton University Number Theory Seminar

Density conjecture for horizontal families of lattices in SL(2)
4:30pm|https://theias.zoom.us/j/959183254

Let G be a real semi-simple Lie group with an irreducible unitary representation \pi. The non-temperedness of \pi is measured by the parameter p(\pi) which is defined as the infimum of p\geq 2 such that \pi has matrix coefficients in L^p(G). Sarnak...