A pleasant exercise

arXiv2205.07691MaRDI QIDQ6399271FDOQ6399271

Publication date: 16 May 2022

Abstract: In the Proceedings of the AMS Boulder conference in 1965 Langlands states a combinatorial lemma involving families of characteristic functions attached to ordered partitions of an obtuse basis in a finite dimensional euclidean vector space. Langlands does not give any indication about the proof of the lemma which is said to be a "pleasant exercise". Since we did not find a proof in the literature we decided to give one. We believe it of some interest for the history of the subject.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial identities, bijective combinatorics (05A19) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over local fields (22E50) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over global fields and adèle rings (22E55)

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