Weil–Deligne group

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The Weil–Deligne group is an extension of the Weil group by a copy of the additive group that encodes both arithmetic and monodromy data, playing a central role in the local Langlands correspondence and the study of l-adic Galois representations.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf extension of groups
mathematical object
topological group
appearsIn Deligne’s theory of local constants
Grothendieck’s theory of ℓ-adic representations
associatedWith complex representation
non-archimedean local field
p-adic field
captures inertia action
tame ramification
unipotent monodromy
wild ramification
context local class field theory
non-abelian local class field theory
definedOver local field
encodes arithmetic data
monodromy data
fieldOfStudy Langlands program NERFINISHED
arithmetic geometry
number theory
representation theory
formalizedBy Pierre Deligne NERFINISHED
generalizationOf Weil group NERFINISHED
hasComponent Weil group NERFINISHED
additive group of complex numbers
nilpotent operator
hasParameterization Langlands parameter via homomorphism into L-group
hasRole local Langlands group candidate
hasStructure semidirect product
namedAfter André Weil NERFINISHED
Pierre Deligne NERFINISHED
relatedTo Frobenius element NERFINISHED
Weil group NERFINISHED
Weil–Deligne parameter NERFINISHED
Weil–Deligne representation NERFINISHED
absolute Galois group
local Langlands correspondence NERFINISHED
monodromy operator
ℓ-adic Galois representation
usedIn classification of smooth representations of p-adic groups
local Langlands parameterization NERFINISHED
study of local L-functions
study of local ε-factors
study of étale cohomology
study of ℓ-adic sheaves
usedToDefine Weil–Deligne representation of a local field NERFINISHED
usedToRelate Galois representations and automorphic representations

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Weil group hasVariant Weil–Deligne group