Representation zeta functions of groups are Dirichlet-type generating functions enumerating the groups' finite-dimensional irreducible complex representations, possibly up to suitable equivalence relations. Under favourable conditions, these zeta functions satisfy Euler products whose factors are indexed by the places of number fields. I will discuss how p-adic integrals can be used to study these Euler products and how this sometimes allows us to capture some key analytic properties of representation zeta functions of groups.

Let X be a set definable in some o-minimal structure. The Pila-Wilkie theorem (in its basic form) states that the number of rational points in the transcendental part of X grows sub-polynomially with the height of the points. The Wilkie conjecture stipulates that for sets definable in R_exp, one can sharpen this asymptotic to polylogarithmic.I will describe a complex-analytic approach to the proof of the Pila-Wilkie theorem for subanalytic sets. I will then discuss how this approach leads to a proof of the `restricted Wilkie conjecture', where we replace R_exp […]