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Families of Automorphic Forms and the Trace Formula

  • Develops analytic, p-adic and geometric perspectives on families of automorphic forms in relation to the trace formula
  • Focuses on recent developments and conjectures at the frontier of current knowledge based on in-depth exchanges between symposium participants
  • Provides researchers in the field and aspiring students with an appraisal of the feasibility of a range of approaches to open problems, as well as the subject's key difficulties
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Simons Symposia (SISY)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Germ Expansions for Real Groups

    • James Arthur
    Pages 1-91
  3. Slopes of Modular Forms

    • Kevin Buzzard, Toby Gee
    Pages 93-109
  4. Transfer Principles for Bounds of Motivic Exponential Functions

    • Raf Cluckers, Julia Gordon, Immanuel Halupczok
    Pages 111-127
  5. Asymptotics and Local Constancy of Characters of p-adic Groups

    • Ju-Lee Kim, Sug Woo Shin, Nicolas Templier
    Pages 259-295
  6. Endoscopy and Cohomology of a Quasi-Split U(4)

    • Simon Marshall
    Pages 297-325
  7. Some Results in the Theory of Low-Lying Zeros of Families of L-Functions

    • Blake Mackall, Steven J. Miller, Christina Rapti, Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh, Karl Winsor
    Pages 435-476
  8. Families of L-Functions and Their Symmetry

    • Peter Sarnak, Sug Woo Shin, Nicolas Templier
    Pages 531-578

About this book

Featuring the work of twenty-three internationally-recognized experts, this volume explores the trace formula, spectra of locally symmetric spaces, p-adic families, and other recent techniques from harmonic analysis and representation theory. 


Each peer-reviewed submission in this volume, based on the Simons Foundation symposium on families of automorphic forms and the trace formula held in Puerto Rico in January-February 2014, is the product of intensive research collaboration by the participants over the course of the seven-day workshop. The goal of each session in the symposium was to bring together researchers with diverse specialties in order to identify key difficulties as well as fruitful approaches being explored in the field. The respective themes were counting cohomological forms, p-adic trace formulas, Hecke fields, slopes of modular forms, and orbital integrals.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mathematical Institute, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Werner Müller

  • Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

    Sug Woo Shin

  • Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Nicolas Templier

About the editors

Werner Müller is Professor Emeritus at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn. He is the author of over fifty publications, including articles in Inventiones Mathematicae, Geometric and Functional Analysis, and Communications in Mathematical Physics. His research interests include geometric analysis, scattering theory, analytic theory of automorphic forms, and harmonic analysis on locally symmetric spaces.


Sug Woo Shin is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. His research is centered on number theory, Shimura varieties, Langlands functoriality, trace formula, and automorphic forms. His work has appeared in many journals, including Inventiones Mathematicae, Mathematische Annalen, and the Israel Journal of Mathematics.


Nicolas Templier is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Cornell University. His work focuses on number theory, automorphic forms, arithmetic geometry, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics. His list of publications include articles in Inventiones Mathematicae, the Ramanujan Journal, and the Israel Journal of Mathematics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Families of Automorphic Forms and the Trace Formula

  • Editors: Werner Müller, Sug Woo Shin, Nicolas Templier

  • Series Title: Simons Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41424-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41422-5Published: 21 September 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82350-8Published: 15 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41424-9Published: 20 September 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2365-9564

  • Series E-ISSN: 2365-9572

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 578

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Topology, Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Convex and Discrete Geometry, Number Theory

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eBook USD 169.00
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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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