Profile of Tom A. Rapoport

On a Conjecture of Kottwitz and Rapoport

We prove a conjecture of Kottwitz and Rapoport which implies a converse to Mazur’s Inequality for all split and quasi-split (connected) reductive groups. These results are related to the non-emptiness of certain affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties.

On a Conjecture of Rapoport and Zink

In their book Rapoport and Zink constructed rigid analytic period spaces F for Fontaine’s filtered isocrystals and period morphisms from moduli spaces of p-divisible groups to some of these period spaces. They conjectured the existence of an étale bijective morphism F → F of rigid analytic spaces and of interesting local systems of Qp-vector spaces on F. For those period spaces possessing perio...

Tom Reid meets Tom Bayes: A defense of common sense

Thomas Reid is often misread as defending common sense, if at all, only by relying on illicit premises about God or our natural faculties. On these theological or reliabilist misreadings, Reid makes common sense assertions where he cannot give arguments. This paper attempts to untangle Reid’s defense of common sense by distinguishing four arguments: (a) the argument from madness, (b) the argume...

Towards a Proof of the Conjecture of Langlands and Rapoport

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