Mathematical Sciences: Automorphic L-functions and Representation Theory

弗里德伯格教授将研究与自同构形式有关的几个问题。特别是，他将研究将Rankin-Selberg方法推广到经典群的亚可分覆盖。此外，他还打算继续他对相对迹公式的研究。自同构形起源于19世纪中叶的非欧几里德几何。因此，数学家和物理学家都早已认识到，许多具有根本重要性的物体本质上都是非欧几里得的。这个领域主要涉及关于整数的问题，但在使用几何和分析时，它保留了与其历史根源的联系，从而与理论物理中的规范理论和信息论中的编码理论等不同领域的问题有关。

Professor Friedberg will work on several problems connected with automorphic forms. In particular, he will study extensions of the Rankin-Selberg method to metaplectic covers of the classical groups. In addition, he intends to continue his work on the relative trace formula. Automorphic forms arose out of Non-Euclidean geometry in the middle of the nineteenth century. Both mathematicians and physicists have thus long realized that many objects of fundamental importance are non-Euclidean in their basic nature. This field is principally concerned with questions about the whole numbers, but in its use of geometry and analysis, it retains connection to its historical roots and thus to problems in areas as diverse as gauge theory in theoretical physics and coding theory in information theory.