Department of Mathematics

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore 560 012

 

SEMINAR

 

Speaker

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Dr. B. Baskar
Affiliation : Brandeis University

Subject Area

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Mathematics

 

Venue

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Lecture Hall - I, Dept of Mathematics

 

Time

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4.00 pm

 

Date  

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August 31,2007 (Friday)

Title

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Overconvergent modular symbols
Abstract : The notion of modular symbols was first introduced by Manin.
We state some basic results which relate modular symbols to special values
of L-functions and p-adic L-functions. We give Greenberg and Stevens
construction of an overconvergent modular symbols which is a measure
valued cohomology class attached to a Hida family of modular forms with
certain interpolation properties. We will construct the Mazur-Kitagawa
two variable p-adic L-function from the overconvergent modular symbol.

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