Seminar series
Date
Thu, 05 Feb 2015
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L5
Speaker
Andrew Booker
Organisation
University of Bristol
In 1989, Selberg defined what came to be known as the "Selberg class" of $L$-functions, giving rise to a new subfield of analytic number theory in the intervening quarter century. Despite its popularity, a few things have always bugged me about the definition of the Selberg class. I will discuss these nitpicks and describe some modest attempts at overcoming them, with new applications.