Monthly Archives: June 2022

Locally induced representations

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Persiflage

Today is a post about work of my student Chengyang Bao. Recall that Lehmer’s conjecture asks whether \(\tau(p) \ne 0\) for all primes \(p\), where \(\Delta = q \prod_{n=1}^{\infty} (1 – q^n)^{24} = \sum \tau(n) q^n\) is Ramanujan’s modular form. … Continue reading →

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Joël Bellaïche

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Persiflage

Very sad to hear that Joël Bellaïche has just died. He got his PhD at the same time as me, and I first got to know him during the Durham conference in 2004 and later at the eigenvarieties semester at … Continue reading →

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