Weil–Deligne group
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The Weil–Deligne group is an extension of the Weil group by a copy of the additive group that encodes both arithmetic and monodromy data, playing a central role in the local Langlands correspondence and the study of l-adic Galois representations.
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| Weil–Deligne group canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Weil–Deligne group Context triple: [Weil group, hasVariant, Weil–Deligne group]
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A.
Weil group
The Weil group is an extension of the absolute Galois group introduced by André Weil to refine class field theory and play a central role in the formulation of the local and global Langlands correspondences.
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B.
Deligne–Lusztig theory
Deligne–Lusztig theory is a framework in algebraic geometry and representation theory that constructs and studies representations of finite groups of Lie type using varieties defined over finite fields.
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C.
Weil cohomology
Weil cohomology is a type of cohomology theory for algebraic varieties that satisfies specific axioms enabling the proof of the Weil conjectures and the development of modern algebraic geometry.
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D.
Frobenius element
The Frobenius element is a distinguished element in a Galois group associated to an unramified prime, encoding how that prime splits in a field extension and playing a central role in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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E.
Brauer group
The Brauer group is an algebraic structure that classifies equivalence classes of central simple algebras over a field (or more general schemes), playing a key role in number theory, algebraic geometry, and cohomology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Weil–Deligne group Target entity description: The Weil–Deligne group is an extension of the Weil group by a copy of the additive group that encodes both arithmetic and monodromy data, playing a central role in the local Langlands correspondence and the study of l-adic Galois representations.
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A.
Weil group
The Weil group is an extension of the absolute Galois group introduced by André Weil to refine class field theory and play a central role in the formulation of the local and global Langlands correspondences.
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B.
Deligne–Lusztig theory
Deligne–Lusztig theory is a framework in algebraic geometry and representation theory that constructs and studies representations of finite groups of Lie type using varieties defined over finite fields.
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C.
Weil cohomology
Weil cohomology is a type of cohomology theory for algebraic varieties that satisfies specific axioms enabling the proof of the Weil conjectures and the development of modern algebraic geometry.
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D.
Frobenius element
The Frobenius element is a distinguished element in a Galois group associated to an unramified prime, encoding how that prime splits in a field extension and playing a central role in algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.
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E.
Brauer group
The Brauer group is an algebraic structure that classifies equivalence classes of central simple algebras over a field (or more general schemes), playing a key role in number theory, algebraic geometry, and cohomology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
extension of groups
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mathematical object ⓘ topological group ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Deligne’s theory of local constants
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Grothendieck’s theory of ℓ-adic representations ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
complex representation
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non-archimedean local field ⓘ p-adic field ⓘ |
| captures |
inertia action
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tame ramification ⓘ unipotent monodromy ⓘ wild ramification ⓘ |
| context |
local class field theory
ⓘ
non-abelian local class field theory ⓘ |
| definedOver | local field ⓘ |
| encodes |
arithmetic data
ⓘ
monodromy data ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Langlands program
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arithmetic geometry ⓘ number theory ⓘ representation theory ⓘ |
| formalizedBy | Pierre Deligne ⓘ |
| generalizationOf | Weil group ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Weil group
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additive group of complex numbers ⓘ nilpotent operator ⓘ |
| hasParameterization | Langlands parameter via homomorphism into L-group ⓘ |
| hasRole | local Langlands group candidate ⓘ |
| hasStructure | semidirect product ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
André Weil
ⓘ
Pierre Deligne ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Frobenius element
ⓘ
Weil group ⓘ Weil–Deligne parameter ⓘ
linked to:
Weil–Deligne representations
Weil–Deligne representation ⓘ
linked to:
Weil–Deligne representations
absolute Galois group ⓘ local Langlands correspondence ⓘ monodromy operator ⓘ ℓ-adic Galois representation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
classification of smooth representations of p-adic groups
ⓘ
local Langlands parameterization ⓘ
linked to:
local Langlands correspondence
study of local L-functions ⓘ study of local ε-factors ⓘ study of étale cohomology ⓘ study of ℓ-adic sheaves ⓘ |
| usedToDefine |
Weil–Deligne representation of a local field
ⓘ
linked to:
Weil–Deligne representations
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| usedToRelate | Galois representations and automorphic representations ⓘ |
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Subject: Weil–Deligne group Description of subject: The Weil–Deligne group is an extension of the Weil group by a copy of the additive group that encodes both arithmetic and monodromy data, playing a central role in the local Langlands correspondence and the study of l-adic Galois representations.
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