The proceedings of the conference are being published in two parts, and the present volume is mostly algebraic (congruence properties of modular forms, modular curves and their rational points, etc.), whereas the second volume will be more analytic and also include some papers on modular forms in several variables.

This is Volume 2 of the Proceedings of the International Summer School on "Modular functions of one variable and arithmetical applications" which took place at RUCA, Antwerp University, from July 17 till August 3, 1972. It contains papers by W. Casselman, P. Deligne, R. Langlands and 1. 1. Piateckii-Shapiro. Its theme is the interplay between modular schemes for elliptic curves, and representations of GL(2). P. Deligne W. Kuyk CONTENTS W. CASSELMAN An assortment of results on represen­ 1 tations of GL (k) 2 P. DELIGNE Formes mOdulaires et representations 55 de GL(2) W. CASSELMAN On representations of GL and the arith­ 107 2 metic of modular curves P. DELIGNE - M. RAPOPORT Les schemas de modules de courbes ellip­ 143 tiques 1. 1. PIATECKII-SHAPIRO Zeta-functions of modular curves 317 R. P. LANGLANDS Modular forms and t-adic representations 361 P. DELIGNE Les constantes des equations fonctionnelles 501 des fonctions L Addresses of authors 598 AN ASSORTMENT OF RESULTS ON REPRESENTATIONS OF GL (k) 2 by W. Casselman~ International Summer School on Modular Functions} Antwerp 1972 ~ The author's travel expences for this conference were paid for by a grant from the National Research Council of Canada. -2- Cas-2 Contents Introduction 3 Notations §1. Generalities 5 Appendix §2. The principal series representations of 15 GL (O) and the associated Hecke algebras 2 §3. The principal series of G 29 §4.

The proceedings of the conference are being published in two parts, and the present volume is mostly algebraic (congruence properties of modular forms, modular curves and their rational points, etc.), whereas the second volume will be more analytic and also include some papers on modular forms in several variables.

An international Summer School on: "Modular functions of one variable and arithmetical applications" took place at RUCA, Antwerp University, from July 17 to - gust 3, 1972. This book is the first volume (in a series of four) of the Proceedings of the Summer School. It includes the basic course given by A. Ogg, and several other papers with a strong analyt~c flavour. Volume 2 contains the courses of R. P. Langlands (l-adic rep resentations) and P. Deligne (modular schemes - representations of GL ) and papers on related topics. 2 Volume 3 is devoted to p-adic properties of modular forms and applications to l-adic representations and zeta functions. Volume 4 collects various material on elliptic curves, includ ing numerical tables. The School was a NATO Advanced Study Institute, and the orga nizers want to thank NATO for its major subvention. Further support, in various forms, was received from IBM Belgium, the Coca-Cola Co. of Belgium, Rank Xerox Belgium, the Fort Food Co. of Belgium, and NSF Washington, D.C•• We extend our warm est thanks to all of them, as well as to RUCA and the local staff (not forgetting hostesses and secretaries!) who did such an excellent job.