Two letters on quaternions and modular forms \(\pmod p\) (with an introduction, appendix and references by R. Livné) (Q1817279)

This paper presents two letters of Serre, the first one written to Tate in 1987 and the second one to Kazhdan in 1989. The first letter gives a sketch of a quaternion approach to modular forms modulo \(p\) (with the quaternions arising when evaluating ``modular forms'' at supersingular elliptic curves). In the second letter, modulo \(p\)-representations of adèle groups are used to show that the \(\text{mod }p\) theory is quite different from the theory over \(\mathbb{C}\).