Hilbert Modular Generating Series with Coefficients in Intersection Homology
| JOINT IAS/PU NUMBER THEORY | |
| Topic: | Hilbert Modular Generating Series with Coefficients in Intersection Homology |
| Speaker: | J. Getz |
| Affiliation: | Princeton University |
| Date: | Thursday, September 27 |
| Time/Room: | 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall 214, Princeton University |
In a seminal Inventiones 1976 paper, Hirzebruch and Zagier produced a set of cycles on certain Hilbert modular surfaces whose intersection numbers are the Fourier coefficients of elliptic modular forms with nebentypus. Their result can be viewed as a geometric manifestation of the Naganuma lift from elliptic modular forms to Hilbert modular forms. We discuss a general analogue of this result where the real quadratic extension is replaced by an arbitrary quadratic extension of totally real fields. Our result can be viewed as a geometric manifestation of quadratic base change for GL_2 over totally real