On some applications of automorphic forms to number theory

On Some Applications of Automorphic Forms to Number Theory

A basic idea of Dirichlet is to study a collection of interesting quantities {an}n≥1 by means of its Dirichlet series in a complex variable w: ∑ n≥1 ann −w. In this paper we examine this construction when the quantities an are themselves infinite series in a second complex variable s, arising from number theory or representation theory. We survey a body of recent work on such series and present...

Applications of Spectral Theory of Automorphic Forms

on Γ\H, parametrized as λw = w(w−1). Haas listed the w-values. Haas thought he was solving the differential equation (∆ − λ)u = 0. Stark and Hejhal observed zeros of ζ and of an L-function on Haas’ list. This suggested an approach to proving the Riemann Hypothesis, since it seemed that zeros w of ζ might give eigenvalues λ = w(w − 1) of ∆. Since ∆ is a self-adjoint, nonpositive operator, these ...

Lectures on Applications of Modular Forms to Number Theory

Modern Theory of Automorphic Forms ∗

The modern theory of automorphic forms is a response to many different impulses and influences, above all the work of Hecke, but also class-field theory and the study of quadratic forms, the theory of representations of reductive groups, and of complexmultiplication, but so far many of the most powerful techniques are the issue, direct or indirect, of the introduction by Maass and then Selberg ...

On Some Applications of Probability to Analysis and Number Theory

It would be quite impossible to give a survey of these subjects in a short article or lecture, and I will only succeed by making some arbitrary restrictions on the topics with which I will deal . First of all, I will restrict myself to problems and results on which I worked, and secondly, I will not discuss subjects which have been discussed in recently appeared review articles [1] . Probabilis...