Johnson Jia
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
2074 East Hall
530 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043
Office: EH 4084
Phone: (734) 763-2502
I am a fourth year graduate student in mathematics at U of M.
My interest is in number theory. To be more specific, I am interested in the arithmeticity of automorphic forms as initiated by Shimura. My recent focus is on investigating the period relations between automorphic forms on unitary groups.
The significance of "arithmetic" automorphic forms in arithmetic/number theory stems from the widely-held belief that the L-functions of a large family of well-behaved motives are automorphic; moreover, the special values of these L-functions are intimately related to the periods that arise from ratios of periods of automorphic forms. There is much work to be done.