18.786 - Number Theory I


SCHEDULE

# Date Topic (references) Materials
12/5Automorphisms of the upper half plane and hyperbolic geometry (Miyake 1.1-1.4)notes, primer
22/7Topological group actions and Fuchsian groups (Miyake 1.5, Voight 33-34)notes
32/12Fuchsian groups and Dirichlet domains (Miyake 1.6-1.7, Voight 36-37)notes
42/14Cusps and stabilizers of Fuchsian groups (Miyake 1.5,1.7-1.8, Voight 37)notes
52/20Lattices, arithmetic groups, and triangle groups (Takeuchi, Voight 38)notes
62/21Automorphic forms, Petersson inner product (Miyake 2.1)notes
72/26Meromorphic differentials (Miyake 2.2-2.3, Diamond-Shurman 3.3-3.4)notes
82/28Dimension formulas (Miyake 2.3-2.5)notes
93/11Poincaré and Eisenstein series (Miyake 2.6)notes
103/13Hecke algebras (Miyake 2.7-2.8)notes
113/19Modular forms for congruence subgroups (Miyake 4.3-4.5)notes
123/20Hecke operators for congruence subgroups (Miyake 4.5)notes
134/1The Riemann zeta function and the Mellin transform (Miyake 3.2)notes
144/3Modular form L-functions (Miyake 4.3)notes
154/10Newforms and twists (Miyake 4.3 and 4.6)notes
164/17The trace formula (Miyake 6.1)notes
174/22Traces of Hecke operators (Miyake 6.3-6.4)notes
184/24Modular Jacobians and modular abelian varieties (Diamond-Shurman 6.1-6.3)notes
194/24Modular curves and the j-function (18.783 Lectures 14-19)notes
205/2Galois representations attached to elliptic curves (18.783 Lecture 12, Serre)notes
215/2Level structure and modular curves XH (RSZB 2.2-2.3)notes
215/2Counting points on XH and decomposing JH (RSZB 5-6)notes