Course Identification

p-adic Analytic Geometry with applications to Representation Theory
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Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Prof. Dmitry Gourevitch, Prof. Joseph Bernstein
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Course Schedule and Location

2021
First Semester
Monday, 14:15 - 16:00
26/10/2020

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Mathematics and Computer Science: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 3.00 points

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Prerequisites

(i) Good knowledge of linear algebra.

 

(ii) Basic Galois theory

 

(ii) $p$-adic fields and their topology.

 

(iii) Extensions of $p$-adic fields.  Ramified and unramified extensions.

    Elementary facts about Galois groups of $p$-adic field

Restrictions

30

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

100%

Evaluation Type

Take-home exam

Scheduled date 1

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

3

Syllabus

During the last decade it became clear that methods of p-adic Analytic Geometry

play more and more important role in Representation Theory, including Langlands’ program.

These methods produce very powerful new tools to construct and study the representations,

and I have a filling that we have to learn these tools to continue to work in Representation Theory.

 

The  p-adic analytic theory by now is very rich and highly developed theory.

In this course I will try to describe basic notions and results of this theory. In my exposition I will

try to emphasize how this theory is related  to the Representation Theory, but I  am not sure

that I will have time to describe this relation in some details.

 

There are two main directions in the development of this theory.

 

1. Rigid Analytic Geometry over p-adic numbers.

 This is a p-adic analogue of the theory of complex manifolds.

 

2. p-adic Hodge Theory.

This is an analogue of complex Hodge theory.

 

Of course these two directions are highly intertwined.

 

In my course I will mostly discuss the Hodge theory. It is closely related to the theory of representations of Galois groups.

   I think that proper understanding of this relation gives a new insight into the standard theory of representations of p-adic groups.

 

In my lectures I will try to formulate most of concepts and results that I need in the lectures.

However, since the material of the course is rather advanced, some preliminary knowledge of many of these topics will be very helpful.

Learning Outcomes

I hope that as a result of this course the participants will be able to read the literature on $p$-adic Hodge Theory and apply it to some problems in Representation Theory.

Reading List

1. Laurent Berger,   An introduction to the theory of p-adic representations.

 

2. OLIVIER BRINON AND BRIAN CONRAD,

CMI SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES ON p-ADIC HODGE THEORY.

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