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Langlands programme

Langlands programme proper noun: a set of interconnected, far-reaching and consequential conjectures connecting number theory with geometry.

Proper noun

Langlands programme

  1. A set of interconnected, far-reaching and consequential conjectures connecting number theory with geometry.
    • The Langlands Programme gives the study of representations of p-adic groups context and relevance, without which it almost certainly would not have enjoyed such a rich half-century of research.
    • As we are reminded in Chapter 4, one should never forget that the study of representations of p-adic groups is inextricably linked with harmonic analysis. The Langlands Programme gives us a beautiful illustration of this fact.2009, Clifton Cunningham, Monica Nevins (editors), Ottawa Lectures on Admissible Representations of Reductive p-adic Groups, American Mathematical Society, Fields Institute for Research in...

Noun

Langlands programme (plural Langlands programmes)

  1. Any of several similar sets of conjectures applicable to restricted domains of number theory and/or geometry.
    • p-adic Langlands programme
    • modulo p Langlands programme

Forms of Langlands programme

Proper noun
alternative formLanglands program
Noun
pluralLanglands programmes

Origin of Langlands programme

Named after Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands, who proposed it in 1967 (privately) and publicly in 1970.

Questions about Langlands programme

What does Langlands programme mean?
Langlands programme means a set of interconnected, far-reaching and consequential conjectures connecting number theory with geometry.
What part of speech is Langlands programme?
Langlands programme can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Langlands programme in the dictionary

  1. Langland
  2. Langlands
  3. Langlands conjecture
  4. Langlands conjectures
  5. Langlands program
  6. Langlands programme
  7. langlauf
  8. langlaufed
  9. langlaufer
  10. langlaufers
  11. langlaufing

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