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Department of Mathematics,
University of California San Diego

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Math 209 - Number Theory

David Whitehouse

Institute for Advanced Studies

Central L-values and toric periods for GL(2)

Abstract:

Waldspurger established a connection between the vanishing of certain L-values and the vanishing of period integrals over tori. Subsequent work of Gross, Zhang and others has, in certain cases, made this connection more precise. I will describe a different approach, via the relative trace formula, to obtain such refinements in general. This is joint work with Kimball Martin.

Host: Wee Teck Gan

February 8, 2007

1:00 PM

AP&M 7321

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