The Fourier-analytic proof of quadratic reciprocity /

"This work brings together for the first time in a single volume the three existing formulations of the Fourier-analytic proof of quadratic reciprocity. It shows how Weil's ground-breaking representation-theoretic treatment is in fact equivalent to Hecke's classical approach, then goe...

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Main Author: Berg, Michael C., 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley, ©2000.
Series:Pure and applied mathematics (John Wiley & Sons : Unnumbered)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Hecke's Proof of Quadratic Reciprocity 1
  • 1.1 Hecke [curly or open theta]-functions and Their Functional Equation 3
  • 1.2 Gauss ( -Hecke) Sums 5
  • 1.3 Relative Quadratic Reciprocity 11
  • 1.4 Endnotes to Chapter 1 14
  • 2. Two Equivalent Forms of Quadratic Reciprocity 16
  • 3. Stone-Von Neumann Theorem 20
  • 3.1 Finite Case: A Paradigm 21
  • 3.2 Locally Compact Abelian Case: Some Remarks 24
  • 3.3 Form of the Stone-Von Neumann Theorem Used in [section] 4.1 25
  • 4. Weil's Acta Paper 26
  • 4.1 Heisenberg Groups 28
  • 4.2 A Heisenberg Group and A Group of Unitary Operators 32
  • 4.3 Kernel of [pi] 35
  • 4.4 Second-Degree Characters 44
  • 4.5 Splitting of [pi] on a Distinguished Subgroup of B(G) 52
  • 4.6 Vector Spaces Over Local Fields 57
  • 4.7 Quaternions Over a Local Field 63
  • 4.8 Hilbert Reciprocity 70
  • 4.9 Stone-Von Neumann Theorem Revisited 73
  • 4.10 Double Cover of the Symplectic Group 77
  • 4.11 Endnotes to Chapter 4 79
  • 5. Kubota and Cohomology 82
  • 5.1 Weil Revisited 84
  • 5.2 Kubota's Cocycle 86
  • 5.3 Splitting of [alpha subscript A] Over SL(2, k) 92
  • 5.4 2-Hilbert Reciprocity Once Again 96
  • 6. Algebraic Agreement Between the Formalisms of Weil and Kubota 98
  • 6.1 Gruesome Diagram 99
  • 6.2 Even More Gruesome Diagram 102
  • 7. Hecke's Challenge: General Reciprocity and Fourier Analysis on the March 103.