L-groups and the Langlands program for covering groups: a historical introduction
Representation Theory
2017-05-23 v1 History and Overview
Number Theory
Abstract
In this joint introduction to an Asterisque volume, we give a short discussion of the historical developments in the study of nonlinear covering groups, touching on their structure theory, representation theory and the theory of automorphic forms. This serves as a historical motivation and sets the scene for the papers in the volume. Our discussion is necessarily subjective and will undoubtedly leave out the contributions of many authors, to whom we apologize in earnest.
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@article{arxiv.1705.07559,
title = {L-groups and the Langlands program for covering groups: a historical introduction},
author = {Wee Teck Gan and Fan Gao and Martin H. Weissman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.07559},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Introduction to a volume of papers by the authors, containing arXiv:1507.01042, arXiv:1409.4039, and arXiv:1601.01366