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   Ng, Siu-Hung; Wang, Yilong; Wilson, Samuel (January 2023, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society)

   We introduce the notions of symmetric and symmetrizable representations of ${\mathrm{SL}}_2<\#comment/>\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$. The linear representations of ${\mathrm{SL}}_2<\#comment/>\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$arising from modular tensor categories are symmetric and have congruence kernel. Conversely, one may also reconstruct modular data from finite-dimensional symmetric, congruence representations of ${\mathrm{SL}}_2<\#comment/>\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$. By investigating a $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$-symmetry of some Weil representations at prime power levels, we prove that all finite-dimensional congruence representations of ${\mathrm{SL}}_2<\#comment/>\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$are symmetrizable. We also provide examples of unsymmetrizable noncongruence representations of ${\mathrm{SL}}_2<\#comment/>\left(\mathbb{Z}\right)$that are subrepresentations of a symmetric one. 

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   Balakrishnan, Jennifer; Çiperiani, Mirela; Mazur, Barry; Rubin, Karl (July 2025, Mathematics of Computation)

   Let $E$be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb{Q}$with Mordell–Weil rank $2$and $p$be an odd prime of good ordinary reduction. For every imaginary quadratic field $K$satisfying the Heegner hypothesis, there is (subject to the Shafarevich–Tate conjecture) a line, i.e., a free ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-submodule of rank $1$, in $E\left(K\right)\otimes <\#comment/>{\mathbb{Z}}_p$given by universal norms coming from the Mordell–Weil groups of subfields of the anticyclotomic ${\mathbb{Z}}_p$-extension of $K$; we call it theshadow line. When the twist of $E$by $K$has analytic rank $1$, the shadow line is conjectured to lie in $E\left(\mathbb{Q}\right)\otimes <\#comment/>{\mathbb{Z}}_p$; we verify this computationally in all our examples. We study the distribution of shadow lines in $E\left(\mathbb{Q}\right)\otimes <\#comment/>{\mathbb{Z}}_p$as $K$varies, framing conjectures based on the computations we have made. 

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   Annala, Toni; Hoyois, Marc; Iwasa, Ryomei (March 2024, Journal of the American Mathematical Society)

   We formulate and prove a Conner–Floyd isomorphism for the algebraic K-theory of arbitrary qcqs derived schemes. To that end, we study a stable $\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$-category of non- ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-invariant motivic spectra, which turns out to be equivalent to the $\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$-category of fundamental motivic spectra satisfying elementary blowup excision, previously introduced by the first and third authors. We prove that this $\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}$-category satisfies ${\mathbb{P}}^1$-homotopy invariance and weighted ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-homotopy invariance, which we use in place of ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-homotopy invariance to obtain analogues of several key results from ${\mathbb{A}}^1$-homotopy theory. These allow us in particular to define a universal oriented motivic ${\mathbb{E}}_{\mathrm{\infty <\#comment/>}}$-ring spectrum $\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}$. We then prove that the algebraic K-theory of a qcqs derived scheme $X$can be recovered from its $\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}$-cohomology via a Conner–Floyd isomorphism\[ ${\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}}^{\ast <\#comment/>\ast <\#comment/>}\left(X\right){\otimes <\#comment/>}_{\mathrm{L}}\mathbb{Z}\left[{\mathrm{\beta <\#comment/>}}^{\pm <\#comment/>1}\right]\simeq <\#comment/>\mathrm{K}{}^{\ast <\#comment/>\ast <\#comment/>}\left(X\right),$\]where $\mathrm{L}$is the Lazard ring and $\mathrm{K}{}^{p,q}\left(X\right)=\mathrm{K}{}_{2q-<\#comment/>p}\left(X\right)$. Finally, we prove a Snaith theorem for the periodized version of $\mathrm{M}\mathrm{G}\mathrm{L}$. 

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   Ford, Kevin; Gabdullin, Mikhail (December 2024, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   We show that for any polynomial $f:\mathbb{Z}\to \mathbb{Z}$with positive leading coefficient and irreducible over $\mathbb{Q}$, if $x$is large enough then there is a string of $(\log x)(\log \log x{)}^{1/835}$consecutive integers $n\in [1,x]$for which $f\left(n\right)$is composite. This improves the result by Kevin Ford, Sergei Konyagin, James Maynard, Carl Pomerance, and Terence Tao [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 23 (2023), pp. 667–700], which has the exponent of $\log \log x$being a constant depending on $f$which can be exponentially small in the degree of $f$. 

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   Golsefidy, S Alireza; Srinivas, Srivatsa (January 2025, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society)

   We study random walks on various group extensions. Under certain bounded generation and bounded scaled conditions, we estimate the spectral gap of a random walk on a quasi-random-by-nilpotent group in terms of the spectral gap of its projection to the quasi-random part. We also estimate the spectral gap of a random-walk on a product of two quasi-random groups in terms of the spectral gap of its projections to the given factors. Based on these results, we estimate the spectral gap of a random walk on the ${\mathbb{F}}_q$-points of a perfect algebraic group $\mathbb{G}$in terms of the spectral gap of its projections to the almost simple factors of the semisimple quotient of $\mathbb{G}$. These results extend a work of Lindenstrauss and Varjú and an earlier work of the authors. Moreover, using a result of Breuillard and Gamburd, we show that there is an infinite set $\mathcal{P}$of primes of density one such that, if $k$is a positive integer and $\mathbb{G}=\mathbb{U}⋊<\#comment/>({\mathrm{SL}}_2{)}_{\mathbb{Q}}^m$is a perfect group and $\mathbb{U}$is a unipotent group, then the family of all the Cayley graphs of $\mathbb{G}\left(\mathbb{Z}/\underset{i=1}{\overset{k}{\prod <\#comment/>}}{p}_i\mathbb{Z}\right)$, $p_i\in <\#comment/>\mathcal{P}$, is a family of expanders. 

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