Séminaire Bourbaki du vendredi
Jochen Heinloth --- Some background for the geometric Langlands correspondence
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Amphithéâtre Charles Hermite (IHP - Bâtiment Borel)
Amphithéâtre Charles Hermite
IHP - Bâtiment Borel
Description
The Langlands correspondence was originally formulated as a conjectural link between representations of Galois groups of number fields and automorphic data. Translating these conjectures into statements for function fields of curves many of the objects admit natural geometric interpretations and the geometry then helps to prove results. For example some expected invariance properties of functions turned into descent properties of sheaves that sometimes follow from topological considerations. In this talk we will try to give some background on the first examples ($GL_1$ and $GL_2$) where this had been observed first by Deligne and Drinfeld and introduce some of the structures that occur in the more general results.