Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

langlands conjecture

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English

Syllables: lang-land-s -con-jec-ture
IPA

32

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the conjectures that comprise the Langlands programme.

Example Sentences

"It^([the Langlands functoriality conjecture]) is closely related to the local Langlands conjectures, which amount to a (conjectural) classification of the representations of reductive groups over local fields."
"This abelian case of the Geometric Langlands Conjecture amounts to the well known result that any rank of one local system (or: line bundle with flat connection) on the curve C extends uniquely to J, and this extension is natural with respect to the Abel-Jacobi map."
"The Langlands conjectures predict the existence of a correspondence between the n-dimensional representations of #92;mathcal#123;G#125;#95;k and the automorphic representations of #92;mathrm#123;GL#125;#95;n(#92;mathbb#123;A#125;) which preserves these analytic invariants."

Etymology

Named after Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands; interpretable as a reference to the Langlands programme.

Inflected Forms

Langlands conjectures (plural) Langlands' conjecture (alternative)

Questions

What does langlands conjecture mean?: Any of the conjectures that comprise the Langlands programme.
Where does langlands conjecture come from?: Named after Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands; interpretable as a reference to the Langlands programme.

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