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Book SynopsisThis book presents a broad, user-friendly introduction to the Langlands program, that is, the theory of automorphic forms and its connection with the theory of L-functions and other fields of mathematics. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on a particular topic devoted to special cases of the program.
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"The six chapters of this monograph give a broad, user-friendly introduction to the Langlands program, that is, the theory of automorphic forms and its connection with the theory of L-functions and other fields of mathematics. First-year graduate students and researchers will benefit from this beautiful text."
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Table of ContentsPreface * E. Kowalski - Elementary Theory of L-Functions I * E. Kowalski - Elementary Theory of L-Functions II * E. Kowalski - Classical Automorphic Forms * E. DeShalit - Artin L-Functions * E. DeShalit - L-Functions of Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms * S. Kudla - Tate's Thesis * S. Kudla - From Modular Forms to Automorphic Representations * D. Bump - Spectral Theory and the Trace Formula * J. Cogdell - Analytic Theory of L-Functions for GLn * J. Cogdell - Langlands Conjectures for GLn * J. Cogdell - Dual Groups and Langlands Functoriality * D. Gaitsgory - Informal Introduction to Geometric Langlands
