18.787: An introduction to the Arthur-Selberg trace formula, Spring 2009

Meetings

Lectures: Tuesday & Thursday at 1-2:30pm in 8-119
Office hours: By appointment

Handouts

• Syllabus

Online references

• Arthur: Collected work
• Arthur: An introduction to the trace formula
• Bump: Spectral theory and the trace formula
• Duflo, Labesse: Sur la formule des traces de Selberg
• Gelbart: Lectures on the Arthur-Selberg trace formula
• Gelbart, Jacquet: Forms of GL(2) from the analytic point of view
• Joyner: Notes on trace formulas for finite groups
• Knapp: Theoretical aspects of the trace formula for GL(2)
• Knapp, Rogawski: Applications of the trace formula
• Knightly, Li: Traces of Hecke operators
• Langlands: Collected work
• Langlands: The trace formula and its applications (an introduction to the work of James Arthur)
• Lapid: Introductory notes on the trace formula
• Wallach: On the Selberg trace formula in the case of compact quotient