Meanings
plural Langlands conjectures · alternative Langlands' conjecture
- mathematicsAny of the conjectures that comprise the Langlands programme.
It^([the Langlands functoriality conjecture]) is closely related to the local Langlands conjectures, which amount to a (conjectural) classification of the representations of reductive groups over local fields.
1998, Daniel Bump, Automorphic Forms and Representations, Cambridge University Press, page 902 more examples
This abelian case of the Geometric Langlands Conjecture amounts to the well known result that any rank of one local system (or: line bundle with flat connection) on the curve C extends uniquely to J, and this extension is natural with respect to the Abel-Jacobi map.
2009, Huai-Dong Cao, Shing-Tung Yau, editors, Surveys in Differential Geometry, International Press, page 86The Langlands conjectures predict the existence of a correspondence between the n-dimensional representations of #92;mathcal#123;G#125;#95;k and the automorphic representations of #92;mathrm#123;GL#125;#95;n(#92;mathbb#123;A#125;) which preserves these analytic invariants.
2013, J. W. Cogdell, “10: Langlands Conjectures for GLₙ”, in Joseph Bernstein, Stephen Gelbart, editors, An Introduction to the Langlands Program, Springer, page 229
Origin
Named after Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands; interpretable as a reference to the Langlands programme.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
German Langlands-Vermutung
- Langlands-Vermutungany conjecture of the Langlands programme
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