Langlands program

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The Langlands program is a far-reaching web of conjectures and theories in number theory and representation theory that seeks deep connections between Galois groups and automorphic forms, unifying many areas of modern mathematics.

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instanceOf mathematical theory
research program
aimsTo generalize class field theory
relate Galois groups to automorphic forms
unify number theory and representation theory
basedOn Langlands correspondence
linked to: Langlands program
conjecturedBy Robert Langlands
coreConcept Galois representation
L-function
linked to: L-functions

automorphic representation
functoriality
motives
field algebraic geometry
arithmetic geometry
harmonic analysis
number theory
representation theory
hasApproach Shimura varieties
endoscopy theory
geometric methods via perverse sheaves and D-modules
p-adic Hodge theory
theta correspondence
trace formula
hasPart Langlands functoriality conjecture
linked to: Langlands program

Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture (automorphic form version)
geometric Langlands program
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global Langlands correspondence
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local Langlands correspondence
reciprocity conjecture
inception 1967
influenced development of geometric representation theory
modularity theorem
proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
theory of motives
influencedBy Taniyama–Shimura conjecture
class field theory
namedAfter Robert Langlands
notableResult Jacquet–Langlands correspondence
Langlands correspondence for function fields (Drinfeld and Lafforgue)
linked to: Langlands program

Langlands–Tunnell theorem
base change for GL(2)
global Langlands correspondence for GL(2) over number fields (partial)
local Langlands correspondence for GL(n)
proof of Sato–Tate conjecture in many cases
openProblem full global Langlands correspondence for number fields
general functoriality for all reductive groups
relates Hecke eigenforms
adelic groups
automorphic representations of reductive groups over global fields
n-dimensional Galois representations

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Hasse–Weil zeta function studiedIn Langlands program
Chebotarev density theorem isToolFor Langlands program
Hilbert’s twelfth problem relatedTo Langlands program
Weil group fieldOfStudy Langlands program
Weil group usedIn local Langlands correspondence
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Weil representation isFundamentalIn local Langlands program (via theta correspondence)
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Robert Langlands knownFor Langlands program
Robert Langlands knownFor Langlands conjectures
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Robert Langlands knownFor functoriality conjecture
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Robert Langlands notableIdea Langlands program
Robert Langlands notableIdea Langlands correspondence
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Alexander Beilinson influenced geometric Langlands theory
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étale cohomology usedIn Langlands program
Vladimir Drinfeld knownFor Langlands program
Vladimir Drinfeld knownFor geometric Langlands correspondence
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Vladimir Drinfeld contributedTo geometric Langlands program
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Deligne–Lusztig theory relatesTo Langlands program
Joseph Bernstein areaOfInfluence Langlands program
Euler products for automorphic L-functions builtFrom local Langlands correspondence
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Ramanujan–Petersson conjecture relatedTo Langlands program
Iwasawa theory relatedTo Langlands program
L-function usedIn Langlands program
subject linked to: L-functions
Laurent Lafforgue mainInterest Langlands program
Laurent Lafforgue notableWork Chtoucas de Drinfeld et correspondance de Langlands
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Goro Shimura areaOfInfluence Langlands program
Hecke operators centralRoleIn Langlands program
Hecke theory relatedTo Langlands program
global class field theory frameworkFor Langlands program (abelian case)
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Kazhdan–Lusztig theory relatedTo Langlands program
Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture centralTo Langlands program for GL(2) over Q
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Galois representations usedIn Langlands program
Artin reciprocity law influenced Langlands program
Artin’s conjecture on L-functions approach Langlands functoriality
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Tamagawa numbers context Langlands program
Langlands program basedOn Langlands correspondence
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Langlands program hasPart global Langlands correspondence
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Langlands program hasPart geometric Langlands program
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Langlands program hasPart Langlands functoriality conjecture
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Langlands program notableResult Langlands correspondence for function fields (Drinfeld and Lafforgue)
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local class field theory influenced local Langlands program
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Frobenius element usedIn Langlands program
Frobenius conjugacy class usedIn Langlands program
Hecke characters usedIn Langlands program
Shimura varieties relatedTo Langlands program
Shimura varieties appearsIn Langlands correspondence
linked to: Langlands program