Pierre Colmez

Summary

Pierre Colmez (born 1962) is a French mathematician, notable for his work on p-adic analysis.

Pierre Colmez
Born1962 (age 61–62)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure and Grenoble University
ChildrenCoralie Colmez
AwardsFermat Prize (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsParis VI University
Doctoral advisorJohn H. Coates
Jean-Marc Fontaine

Colmez studied at École Normale Supérieure and obtained his doctorate from Grenoble University. He won the 2005 Fermat Prize for his contributions to the study of L-functions and p-adic Galois representations.

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[1] With Jean-Pierre Serre he edited the Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre (2001).[2][3]

Colmez has won the French Go championship four times.[4]

Mathematical work edit

He works on special values of L-functions and  -adic representations of  -adic groups at the meeting point of Fontaine's and Langlands' programs. His contributions include:

  • A proof[5] of a  -adic analog of Dirichlet's analytic class number formula.
  • A conjecture[6] "Colmez's conjecture" relating Artin L-functions at   and periods of abelian varieties with complex multiplication, a far reaching generalization of the Chowla-Selberg formula.
  • A proof[7] of Perrin-Riou's conjectural explicit reciprocity law related to the functional equation of  -adic L-functions.
  • Several contributions to Fontaine's program of classification of  -adic representations of the absolute Galois group of a finite extension of  , including proofs of conjectures of Fontaine such as[8] "weakly admissible implies admissible" and the[9] " -adic monodromy conjecture" which describe representations coming from geometry, or the overconvergence of all representations,[10] and addition of new concepts such as[11] "trianguline representations" or[12] "Banach-Colmez[13] spaces".
  • A construction[14] of the  -adic local Langlands correspondence for  , via the construction of a functor (known as "Colmez's functor" or[15] "Colmez's Montreal functor") from representation of   to representations of the absolute Galois group of  .
  • Comparison theorems[16] · [17] · [18] for  -adic algebraic and analytic varieties with applications to a geometrization of the  -adic local Langlands correspondence.

Personal life edit

Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps are the parents of Coralie Colmez.[19][20] Violinist David Grimal is Colmez's first cousin.

External links edit

References edit

  1. ^ Colmez, Pierre (1998). "Représentations p-adiques d'un corps local". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 153–162.
  2. ^ Raynaud, Michel (October 2003). "Book Review: Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre " (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 50 (9): 1085–1086.
  3. ^ Colmez, P.; Serre, J.-P., eds. (2004). Grothendieck-Serre Correspondence. American Mathematical Society; Société Mathématique de France. ISBN 978-0-8218-3424-4; bilingual edition{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. ^ Open - Fédération Française de Go - Jeu de go
  5. ^ Résidu en s=1 des fonctions zêta p-adiques, Inventiones mathematicae 91 (1988), 371-389
  6. ^ Périodes des variétés abéliennes à multiplication complexe, Annals of Mathematics 138 (1993), 625–683
  7. ^ Théorie d'Iwasawa des représentations de de Rham d'un corps local, Annals of Mathematics 148 (1998), 485–571
  8. ^ Construction des représentations p-adiques semi-stables (avec J.-M. Fontaine), Inventiones mathematicae 140 (2000), 1–43 (avec Jean-Marc Fontaine)
  9. ^ Espaces Vectoriels de dimension finie et représentations de de Rham, Astérisque 319 (2008), 117–186
  10. ^ Représentations p-adiques surconvergentes, Inventiones mathematicae 133 (1998), 581–611 (avec Frédéric Cherbonnier)
  11. ^ Représentations triangulines de dimension 2, Astérisque 319 (2008), 213–258
  12. ^ Espaces de Banach de dimension finie, Journal Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu 1 (2002), 331–439
  13. ^ Arthur-César Le Bras, Espaces de Banach–Colmez et faisceaux cohérents sur la courbe de Fargues–Fontaine, Duke Math. J. 167 (2018), 3455-3532
  14. ^ Représentations de   et  -modules, Astérisque 330 (2010), 281–509
  15. ^ Vytautas Paškūnas, The image of Colmez’s Montreal functor, Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS 118 (2013), 1–191
  16. ^  -adic vanishing cycles and syntomic cohomology, Inventiones mathematicae 208 (2017), 1-108 (with Wiesława Nizioł).
  17. ^ Cohomologie  -adique de la tour de Drinfeld, le cas de la dimension 1, Journal of the AMS 33 (2020), 311–362 (with Wiesława Nizioł and Gabriel Dospinescu).
  18. ^ Cohomology of  -adic Stein spaces, Inventiones mathematicae 219 (2020), 873–985 (with Wiesława Nizioł and Gabriel Dospinescu).
  19. ^ "Allow me to explain, Your Honour". The Economist. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  20. ^ Tsui, Diana (9 January 2018). "The Mathematician Who Moonlights As a Rock-Band Violinist". The Cut. Retrieved 2 October 2020.