Brief introduction to cyclotomic theory over Q using adeles. Discussion of the definitions of modular forms and automorphic forms. Introducing the adelic automorphic forms via strong approximation theorem. Discussion of the connected components of Shimura varieties (modular curves). Smooth/admissible representations of locally finite groups. Definition and admissibility of (cuspidal) automorphi...

We consider periods of automorphic representations of adele groups defined by integrals along Gelfand subgroups. We define natural maps between local components of such periods and construct corresponding global maps using automorphic L-functions. This leads to an introduction of a global invariant of an automorphic representation arising from two such periods. We compute this invariant in some...

A lifting map from cuspidal automorphic representations of the Jacobi group G J to cuspidal auto-morphic representations of the group PGL(2) is constructed. The lifting also has a local deenition, and the local and global versions are compatible. The local lifts can be described in terms of equivalence classes of local representations. The main idea in the construction is to exploit the close r...

The first part of this report describes the class of representations of Galois groups of number fields that have been attached to automorphic representations. The construction is based on the program for analyzing cohomology of Shimura varieties developed by Langlands and Kottwitz. Using p-adic methods, the class of Galois representations obtainable in this way can be expanded slightly; the lin...

We prove the Rankin-Selberg convolution of two cuspidal automorphic representations are automorphic whenever one of them arises from an irreducible representation of an abelian-by-nilpotent Galois extension, which extends the previous result of Arthur-Clozel. Moreover, if one of such representations is of dimension at most 3 and another representation arises from a nearly nilpotent extension or...