This book is the doctoral thesis of the author submitted to University of Hyderabad in 2008. In this he has proved an extension of Tunnell's theorem which was done partially by Prof. Dipendra Prasad, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 1994. Prasad himself gave a complete proof of the theorem in 2007, but using completely different techniques used in the proof appearing in this dissertation. Later in the book, the author uses this theorem to do some interesting "counting of characters". Even though the calculations appearing in this book are long, they are not so complicated and...
This book is the doctoral thesis of the author submitted to University of Hyderabad in 2008. In this he has proved an extension of Tunnell's theorem w...