The Trace Formula and the Proof of the Global Jacquet-Langlands Correspondence

Abstract

This is a survey of the proof of the global Jacquet-Langlands correspondence between GL_n and general inner forms, in characteristic zero. The proof is given after a long introduction recalling in some detail the objects and results involved. The paper is based on the notes of the lectures I gave at the doctoral school in CIRM 2016 (Jean-Morlet Chair) organized by Dipendra Prasad, Volker Heiermann and Fiona Murnaghan. It appeared in 2018 in the volume Relative Aspects in Representation Theory, Langlands Functoriality and Automorphic Forms (LNM 2221).