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Langlands: letter to André Weil

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Arithmetic and number theory · THEORY

Reference score340,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Formulated conjectural links between automorphic representations and Galois or Weil-group data in the 1967 letter.

Scientific scope

The target is Langlands' January 1967 letter to André Weil, circulated privately and printed later. It is a conjectural programme rather than a proof, and later Euler Products, Jacquet-Langlands and subsequent theorems remain separate.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The target is Langlands' January 1967 letter to André Weil, circulated privately and printed later. It is a conjectural programme rather than a proof, and later Euler Products, Jacquet-Langlands and subsequent theorems remain separate.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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