Tomio Kubota
Tomio Kubota was a Japanese mathematician working in number theory. His contributions include works on p-adic L functions and real-analytic automorphic forms.
His work on p-adic L-functions, later recognised as an aspect of Iwasawa theory, was done jointly with Leopoldt.
He extended the concept of metaplectic group, in a way significant for arithmetic applications. This opened a field for later research on associated Dirichlet series and automorphic forms, and was a major step in the solution of Kummer's conjecture.
Works
- On automorphic functions and the reciprocity law in a number field. Kinokuniya, Tokyo 1969
- Notes on analytic theory of numbers. University of Chicago Press, 1963
- with Sigekatu Kuroda: 整数論 : 代数的整数論の基礎., Asakura Shoten, Tokyo 1963
- editor: Investigations in number theory. Academic Press, 1988