Clifton Cunningham And

Report from the Ambassador to Cida-2

Clifton Cunningham (cunning?math.ucalgary.ca) received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto under the supervision of James Arthur in 1997. After a postdoc at the University of Massachusetts and visiting positions in Paris at the Ecole Normale Sup?rieure and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, he moved to the University of Calgary, where he continues to work. His research uses ...

Motivic Proof of a Character Formula for SL(2)

Motivic Proof of a Character Formula for Sl(2) Clifton Cunningham and Julia Gordon

We give a motivic proof of a character formula for depth zero supercuspidal representations of p-adic SL(2). We begin by finding the virtual Chow motives for the character values of all depth zero supercuspidal representations of p-adic SL(2), at topologically unipotent elements. Then we find the virtual Chow motives for the values of the Fourier transform of all regular elliptic orbital integr...

Good Orbital Integrals

This paper concerns a class of orbital integrals in Lie algebras over p-adic fields. The values of these orbital integrals at the unit element in the Hecke algebra count points on varieties over finite fields. The construction, which is based on motivic integration, works both in characteristic zero and in positive characteristic. As an application, the Fundamental Lemma for this class of integ...

The Vitamin D Receptor (VDR) Gene Polymorphisms Fok1 In Obese Pakistanis– a Preliminary Report

Objective: The role of vitamin D has soared to a pinnacle in recent years with functions affecting 229 human genes linked to cardiovascular, autoimmune, humoral, pulmonary and neurological diseases. Relationship between obesity and vitamin D has not as yet been fully established. The objective of the study was to determine the possible relationship between Vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorp...