How Much Do You Know About Arthur's Conjectures?

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1) A 2009 study by O. Paniagua- Taboada also found what issue with an elliptic Arthur parameter?

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When bigger eigenvalues are used than the discrete spectrum in Arthur's original work, the parameters cannot be cuspidal.

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How Much Do You Know About Arthurs Conjectures? - Quiz

Arthur's conjectures is a noted mathematical theorem paper written in 1989 by James Arthur. Arthur is the former president of the American Mathematical Society and a Professor at the University of Toronto. His conjectures deal with Unipotent Automorphic Representations on local and global scales. Test your knowledge with this... see morequiz! see less

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2) Which formula are Arthur's Conjectures based on? 

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Arthur states in the Foreword that it is based on the trace formula.

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3) Why did Arthur need to consider endoscopy?

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Arthur needed to consider endoscopy because he wanted to apply his theory to non-tempered representations. Endoscopic groups were necessary in order to understand linear groups better and to create reductive groups. Although endoscopy hadn't been proven with tempered representations, Arthur had a hypothesis on how to do so.

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4) What does Arthur mean by unipotent?

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An unipotent element remains unchanged in a subgroup of elements being changed by an outside force such as multiplication.

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5) Arthur's mentor, Robert Langlands, created a notion of Functoriality that Arthur worked off of. Simply put, what was the difference in the mens' work?

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Arthur took the next step from Langlands reductive groups and extended functoriality to see if it worked for a class of naturally unitary representations.

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6) A large amount of Arthur's work deals with Endoscopy. Who is responsible for the theory of endoscopy?

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Langlands and Shelstad are responsible for the theory of endoscopy.

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7) What is the overall purpose of Arthur's Conjectures?

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While the theorem is very long with many separate proofs and hypotheses, Arthur's main point dealt with semisimple and unipotent representations of automorphic forms.

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8) A simplistic form of Arthur's conjectures split automorphic representations into ________, and a refined form used ________ representations.

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The field is split into packets on a great scale, and Arthur uses individual representations on a more refined level to try to prove his conjectures.

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9) By changing the parameters of Langlands research, Arthur's Conjectures encountered which problems (according to a 2004 paper by Laurent Clozel)?

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There were many issues that would would need to find theorised solutions. With the larger parameters the geometry of the reductive groups came into question as well.

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10) What is a reductive group?

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A reductive group is linear.

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A 2009 study by O. Paniagua- Taboada also found what issue with an...
Which formula are Arthur's Conjectures based on? 
Why did Arthur need to consider endoscopy?
What does Arthur mean by unipotent?
Arthur's mentor, Robert Langlands, created a notion of...
A large amount of Arthur's work deals with Endoscopy. Who is...
What is the overall purpose of Arthur's Conjectures?
A simplistic form of Arthur's conjectures split automorphic...
By changing the parameters of Langlands research, Arthur's...
What is a reductive group?
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