Author Archives: Persiflage

En Passant

Several times in NYC, I’ve had the chance to visit Eataly, an italian food court/upscale delicatessen run by Mario Batali. You can either sit down at one of the various restaurants for an antipasto plate with a glass of wine, … Continue reading

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Prokofiev

Glenn Gould is best known (deservedly) for his Bach, but there are other treasures in his discography, including Schoenberg and (perhaps surprisingly) Brahms. Here’s Gould playing some mean Prokofiev:

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Remarks on Buzzard-Taylor

Let \(\rho: G_{\mathbf{Q},S} \rightarrow \mathrm{GL}_2(\overline{\mathbf{Q}}_p)\) be continuous and unramified at \(p\). The Fontaine-Mazur conjecture predicts that \(\rho\) has finite image and is automorphic. Buzzard and Taylor proved this result under the assumption the natural assumption that \(\rho\) is odd, that … Continue reading

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Winning the Chocolate

Once a month, there is an (unrated) round robin blitz tournament at the Evanston chess club. The time controls are set on five minutes (a little slow for me, I usually play one minute games online), but it’s nice to … Continue reading

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Why it is good to be Pure

There do not exist any regular pure motives \(M\) over \(\mathbf{Q}\) which are not essentially self dual. Here is why. \(M\) gives rise to a compatible family of Galois representations for each rational prime \(v\) such that the characteristic polynomial … Continue reading

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Hilbert Modular Forms of Partial Weight One, Part I

Let \(\pi\) be an algebraic Hilbert modular cuspform for some totally real field \(F^{+}\). Then, associated to \(\pi\), one has a compatible family of Galois representations: \(r_{\lambda}(\pi): G_{F^{+}} \rightarrow \mathrm{GL}_2(\mathcal{O}_{\lambda})\) which are unramified outside finitely many primes (this is the … Continue reading

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Even Galois Representations mod p

Suppose that \(\overline{\rho}: G_{\mathbf{Q}}: \rightarrow \mathrm{GL}_2(\overline{\mathbf{F}}_p)\) is a continuous  irreducible Galois representation. What does the Langlands program say about such \(\overline{\rho}\)? When \(\overline{\rho}\) is odd, the situation is quite satisfactory, the answer being given by Serre’s conjecture. For example, having fixed a … Continue reading

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Why Blog?

The reasons for running a blog are various; they run the gamut from narcissism to simple self-aggrandizement. Time will tell which type of blog this will be. I’m not really looking to find an audience beyond those people I already know … Continue reading

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