Exponential Sums and Differential Equations. (AM-124)
Nicholas M. Katz

Paper | 1990 | $70.00 / £48.95
448 pp.

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This book is concerned with two areas of mathematics, at first sight disjoint, and with some of the analogies and interactions between them. These areas are the theory of linear differential equations in one complex variable with polynomial coefficients, and the theory of one parameter families of exponential sums over finite fields. After reviewing some results from representation theory, the book discusses results about differential equations and their differential galois groups (G) and one-parameter families of exponential sums and their geometric monodromy groups (G). The final part of the book is devoted to comparison theorems relating G and G of suitably "corresponding" situations, which provide a systematic explanation of the remarkable "coincidences" found "by hand" in the hypergeometric case.

Other Princeton books by Nicholas M. Katz:

• Arithmetic Moduli of Elliptic Curves. (AM-108).
• Gauss Sums, Kloosterman Sums, and Monodromy Groups. (AM-116).
• Moments, Monodromy, and Perversity. (AM-159): A Diophantine Perspective. (AM-159).
• Rigid Local Systems. (AM-139).
• Twisted L-Functions and Monodromy. (AM-150).

Series:

• Annals of Mathematics Studies
  Phillip A. Griffiths, John N. Mather, and Elias M. Stein, Editors

Subject Area:

• Mathematics

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