Presented By: Department of Mathematics
RTG Seminar on Number Theory Seminar
Rigid inner forms over function fields
Endoscopy is the study of how the Langlands correspondence behaves with respect to functoriality, and is thus critical to understanding the Langlands conjectures. A transfer factor, roughly speaking, is a function that helps one interpolate between different spaces and is a crucial ingredient for endoscopy. In order to define transfer factors for a general reductive group G over a p-adic field, Kaletha constructed a new canonically-defined cohomology set associated to G. The talk will first discuss the function-field analogue of this construction, focusing primarily on its new challenges. We then turn to the construction of a new cohomology set associated to a reductive group over a global function field, and show how it can be used to connect the aforementioned local transfer factors to an adelic transfer factor, and, time-permitting, new conjectures that this approach enables. Speaker(s): Peter Dillery (University of Michigan)