Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. CHAPTER 1 The basic (S-), (S), and (S+) settings 7
5. CHAPTER 2 Some basic facts about monodromy groups 33
6. CHAPTER 3 Representations of reductive groups containing elements with special spectra 65
7. CHAPTER 4 Hypergeometric sheaves with wild part of dimension one 103
8. CHAPTER 5 Tensor induced local systems 115
9. CHAPTER 6 (Non-)existence results 145
10. CHAPTER 7 Extraspecial normalizers and local systems in odd characteristic 205
11. CHAPTER 8 Extraspecial normalizers and local systems in characteristic 2 241
12. CHAPTER 9 Two further kinds of local system in characteristic 2 313
13. CHAPTER 10 One-parameter families of exponential sums 369
14. CHAPTER 11 Multi-parameter families of exponential sums 453
15. CHAPTER 12 Local systems with non-monomial coefficients 485
16. Appendices 561
17. Acknowledgements 563
18. Bibliography 565
19. Symbols 575
20. Index 579