L-Functions and Arithmetic

ISBN-13: 9780521386197 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 404 str.

J. Coates; M. J. Taylor; J. W. S. Cassels

Opis

This volume is an outgrowth of the LMS Durham Symposium on L-functions, held in July 1989. The Symposium consisted of several short courses, aimed at presenting rigorous but nontechnical explanations of the latest research areas, and a number of individual lectures on specific topics.

Spis treści

1. Descent theory and finiteness results on the Tate-Safarevic group of elliptic curves Gross and Rubin; 2. Automorphic L-functions Arthur and Gelbart; 3. Beilinson conjectures Deninger and Scholl; 4. Hilbert modular forms Ribet R. Taylor and Wiles; 5. Iwasawa theory of motives Coates and Greenberg; 6. p-adic cohomology Bloch and Fontaine; 7. -adic representations attached to automorphic forms Clozel; 8. L-functions and Galois modules Chinburg, Frohlich and M. Taylor.