Speaker: 

Olivia Beckwith

Institution: 

UIUC

Time: 

Thursday, April 8, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom: https://uci.zoom.us/j/95973703658

 

The Gauss composition law famously describes the class group of an order in a quadratic number field by an operation on binary quadratic forms up to matrix transformation. Using a stricter notion of equivalence, we describe ray class groups of a quadratic order in terms of quadratic forms.  We explore applications to representing primes by binary quadratic forms, and we describe leading coefficients of Hecke series for real quadratic fields as twisted traces of cycle integrals of polyharmonic Maass forms. This is ongoing joint work with Gene Kopp.