Modular Forms and Galois Cohomology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521770361)

This book provides a comprehensive account of a key, perhaps the most important, theory that forms the basis of Taylor-Wiles proof of Fermat's last theorem. Hida begins with an overview of the theory of automorphic forms on linear algebraic groups and then covers the basic theory and recent results on elliptic modular forms, including a substantial simplification of the Taylor-Wiles proof by Fujiwara and Diamond. He offers a detailed exposition of the representation theory of profinite groups (including deformation theory), as well as the Euler characteristic formulas of Galois cohomology groups. The final chapter presents a proof of a non-abelian class number formula.

Author: Haruzo Hida
ISBN-10: 052177036X
ISBN-13: 9780521770361
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2000
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.23h x 6.16w x 0.90d