I don't know the number theory behind this but there are good asymptotics on the number of ways to write $n$ as sum of $4k$ squares, which I learnt a bit about today
The heart of those lie in proving that for a certain subgroup $\Gamma$ of $\text{SL}_2(\Bbb Z)$, the cusp forms on $\Bbb H^2/\Gamma$ of weight $2k$ have Fourier coefficients of polynomial growth
Thanks, I'll forward this to my friend (who asked me to read a bit about a certain chapter in a certain set of notes on elliptic curves which discusses this and explain it to him)
@Balarka the algebra looks at the Hilbert class field of quadratic extensions.. the book I used gives a primitive element for those but in general to find such an element you need to use the j-invariant, which is a modular function, so $\operatorname{SL}_2(\Bbb Z)$ etc.
It's very hard to get Lipschitz from uniform continuity. Adding hypothesis like slopes don't grow too fast at infinity doesn't help, you can have problem at 0 as well.
ideally one should analyze all functions of the form $x^\alpha \sin(1/x^\beta)$ for appropriate choices of $\alpha$ and $\beta$, extending to $0$ whenever possible
In terms of Riemannian/hermitian geometry, @s.harp, the upper bound on the dimension of the automorphism group of an $n$-dimensional manifold is the dimension of $O(n)$ or $U(n)$, and you achieve that only for spheres/complex projective spaces. You can find neat stuff like this in Kobayashi's book on automorphism groups of ...
@TedShifrin for any epsilon and every lipschitz function i can find a C^1 function so that our lipschitz guy is equal to the C^1 guy outside a set of measure less than epsilon
remind me what the Hilbert class field is again? the highest extension which has abelian Galois group, in the sense that the Galois group is Gal(Kbar/K)^ab?
well the way I had it @TedShifrin was i start with a set M = all the intergers of this form an+bm such that m,n are integers , then i show that this set is not empty, and has positive intergers in it
i used to be pretty ok, i havent done like any algebra recently but im hoping i can get up to speed quickly or maybe ill just sit in on whatever undergrad algebra they have
oh yeah they usually have a functional intro and a riemann surfaces intro too @Ryan but i think it says somewhere on the dept page that they only have like 4 - 6 grad intro classes per year and they miss a lot of the basic subjects