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Ravi Ramakrishna
Professor and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Malott Hall, Room 595
rkr5@cornell.edu
607-2576972
Educational Background
- Ph.D. (1992) Princeton University
Departments/Programs
- Mathematics
Graduate Fields
- Mathematics
Research
Algebraic number theory
My research is in Galois theory. This is the branch of mathematics concerned with symmetries of solutions of equations. There is an object that encodes all symmetries of solutions to all equations, the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers. I study this object and its relations with number theory. The study of these symmetries has gained an increasingly important role in number theory in recent years. In particular, Galois theory played an important role in the solution of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Courses
Spring 2021
- MATH 1106 : Modeling with Calculus for the Life Sciences
- MATH 4900 : Supervised Research
- MATH 4901 : Supervised Reading
Publications
- Some supercongruences occurring in truncated hypergeometric series (with L. Long). Adv. Math. 290 (2016), 773–808.
- Lifting torsion Galois representations (with C Khare). Forum Math. Sigma 3 (2015), e14, 37 pp.
- Maps to weight space in Hida families. Indian J. Pure Appl. Math. 45 (2014), no. 5, 759–776.
- Deformations of certain reducible Galois representations (with S. Hamblen). II. Amer. J. Math. 130 (2008), no. 4, 913–944.
- Constructing semisimple p-adic Galois representations with prescribed properties (with C. Khare and M. Larsen), American Journal of Mathematics 127 (2005), 709–734.
- Deforming Galois representations and the conjectures of Serre and Fontaine-Mazur, Ann. of Math. (2) 156 no. 1 (2002), 115–154.