In this paper we construct a connection ∇ on the trivial G-bundle on P for any simple complex algebraic group G, which is regular outside of the points 0 and ∞, has a regular singularity at the point 0, with principal unipotent monodromy, and has an irregular singularity at the point ∞, with slope 1/h, the reciprocal of the Coxeter number of G. The connection ∇, which admits the structure of an...

This article is an introduction to the early life and work of Robert P. Langlands, creator and founder of the Langlands program. The story is, to a large extent, told by Langlands himself, in his own words. Our focus is on two of Langlands’ major discoveries: automorphic L-functions and the principle of functoriality. It was Langlands’ desire to communicate his excitement about his newly discov...

0.1. Background. Let X be a smooth, complete, geometrically connected curve over the finite field Fq. Denote by F the field of rational functions on X and by A the ring of adèles of F . The Langlands conjecture, recently proved by L. Lafforgue [Laf], establishes a correspondence between cuspidal automorphic forms on the group GLn(A) and irreducible, almost everywhere unramified, n–dimensional `...

The Langlands program of number theory, or what we might call Langlands duality, was proposed in more or less its present form by Robert Langlands, in the late 1960s. It is a kind of unified scheme for many results in number theory ranging from quadratic reciprocity, which is hundreds of years old, to modern results such as Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s last theorem, which involved a sort of ...

This paper is a review of some interesting results that has been obtained in the study of the categories of A-branes on the dual Hitchin fibers and some interesting phenomena associated with the endoscopy in the geometric Langlands correspondence of various authoritative theoretical physicists and mathematicians. The geometric Langlands correspondence has been interpreted as the mirror symmetry...

Let F be a p-adic field of characteristic 0, and let A be an F -central division algebra of dimension dA over F . In the paper we first develop the representation theory of GL(m,A), assuming that holds the conjecture which claims that unitary parabolic induction is irreducible for GL(m,A)’s. Among others, we obtain the formula for characters of irreducible unitary representations of GL(m,A) in ...

We consider critical points of master functions associated with integral dominant weights of Kac-Moody algebras and introduce a generating procedure constructing new critical points starting from a given one. The set of all critical points constructed from a given one is called a population. We formulate a conjecture that a population is isomorphic to the flag variety of the Langlands dual Kac-...

Shimura varieties are arithmetic quotients of locally symmetric spaces which are canonically defined over number fields. In this article, we discuss recent developments on the reciprocity law realized on cohomology groups of Shimura varieties which relate Galois representations and automorphic representations. Focus is put on the control of -adic families of Galois representations by -adic fami...

In earlier work, the second named author described how one may extract Darmonstyle L -invariants from modular forms on Shimura curves that are special at p. In this paper, we show that these L -invariants are preserved by the Jacquet–Langlands correspondence. As a consequence, we prove the second named author’s period conjecture in the case where the base field is Q. As a further application of...