Twisted L-functions and monodromy / by Nicholas M. Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Nicholas M., 1943-

Series:

Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 150.

Annals of mathematics studies ; no. 150

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

L-functions.

Monodromy groups.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

For hundreds of years, the study of elliptic curves has played a central role in mathematics. The past century in particular has seen huge progress in this study, from Mordell's theorem in 1922 to the work of Wiles and Taylor-Wiles in 1994. Nonetheless, there remain many fundamental questions where we do not even know what sort of answers to expect. This book explores two of them: What is the average rank of elliptic curves, and how does the rank vary in various kinds of families of elliptic curves? Nicholas Katz answers these questions for families of ''big'' twists of elliptic curves in the function field case (with a growing constant field). The monodromy-theoretic methods he develops turn out to apply, still in the function field case, equally well to families of big twists of objects of all sorts, not just to elliptic curves. The leisurely, lucid introduction gives the reader a clear picture of what is known and what is unknown at present, and situates the problems solved in this book within the broader context of the overall study of elliptic curves. The book's technical core makes use of, and explains, various advanced topics ranging from recent results in finite group theory to the machinery of l-adic cohomology and monodromy. Twisted L-Functions and Monodromy is essential reading for anyone interested in number theory and algebraic geometry.

Contents:

pt. 1. Background material

pt. 2. Twist sheaves, over an algebraically closed field

pt. 3. Twist sheaves, over a finite field

pt. 4. Twist sheaves over schemes of finite type over Z.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-239) and index.

ISBN:

9786612820892

9781282820890

1282820893

9781400824885

1400824885

OCLC:

670429607