On the Euler characteristic of the discr
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Benedict H. Gross; David Pollack
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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This paper, which is largely expository in nature, seeks to illustrate some of the advances that have been made on the trace formula in the past 15 years. We review the basic theory of the trace formula, then introduce some ideas of Arthur and Kottwitz that allow one to calculate the Euler character