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Réunion d'été 2009 de la SMC et de la SCHPM
Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve, St. John's (Terre Neuve), 6 - 8 juin, 2009 www.smc.math.ca//Reunions/ete09
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Conférence du Prix Jeffery-Williams


STEPHEN KUDLA, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
Modular forms and cycles on ball quotients
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This lecture will give an overview of some relations between modular forms, especially their Fourier coefficients, and the geometry and arithmetic of ball quotients Y = G\D, where D is the unit ball in Cn and G is an arithmetic subgroup of the unitary group U(n,1). Such quotients Y are quasi-projective varieties with many special algebraic cycles arising as quotients Zx = Gx \Dx of sub-balls Dx Ì D.

By results of old joint work with John Millson, the generating series for the cohomology classes determined by suitable collections of such cycles are modular forms for unitary groups UU(r,r). This gives an analogue of the seminal results of Hirzebruch-Zagier on generating series for divisors on Hilbert modular varieties.

Recently, in joint work with Michael Rapoport, we define arithmetic analogues of the cycles Zx by utilizing the fact that the ball quotients Y can be viewed as the complex points of moduli schemes for abelian varieties. We conjecture that the classes in arithmetic Chow groups defined by suitable collections of such cycles are, again, the Fourier coefficients of certain modular forms.

I will discuss some evidence for this conjecture, particularly for the case of arithmetic 0-cycles.

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