On a Result of Waldspurger in Higher Rank
| JOINT IAS/PU NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR | |
| Topic: | On a Result of Waldspurger in Higher Rank |
| Speaker: | D. Whitehouse |
| Affiliation: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Date: | Thursday, April 10 |
| Time/Room: | 4:30pm - 5:30pm/Fine Hall -- 214 |
An important result of Waldspurger relates the central value of quadratic base change L-functions for GL(2) to period integrals over tori. Subsequently this result was reproved by Jacquet using the relative trace formula. We will explain some progress on extending Waldspurger's result to higher rank via a generalization of Jacquet's approach.