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Kumar Murty is a Professor, FRSC at the University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics. His research interests are not specified in the available information. Murty's contact details include an email address and a website link to his profile page. No additional details regarding his academic background, awards, or specific research areas are provided.
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Vijaya Kumar Murty is a mathematician whose research focuses on number theory, particularly in the areas of L-functions, modular forms, and their applications to algebraic number theory. His work explores the non-vanishing of L-functions, mean values of derivatives of modular L-series, and the Chebotarev density theorem. Murty also investigates the properties of Dirichlet L-functions, Artin L-series, and their zeros and poles. His research includes explicit formulae, sieve methods, and the Sato-Tate conjecture, with applications to elliptic curves and abelian varieties. Murty's contributions span both theoretical and computational aspects of number theory, emphasizing deep connections between algebraic structures and analytic methods.