Thursday, May 02, 2024
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Linde Hall 387
Number Theory Seminar
Series: Number Theory Seminar Series
Simple abelian varieties over finite fields with extreme point counts
Alexander Smith,
Mathematics Department,
UCLA,
Given a compactly supported probability measure on the reals, we will give a necessary and sufficient condition for there to be a sequence of totally real algebraic integers whose distribution of conjugates approaches the measure. We use this result to prove that there are infinitely many totally positive algebraic integers X satisfying tr(X)/deg(X) < 1.899; previously, there were only known to be infinitely many such integers satisfying tr(X)/deg(X) < 2. We also will explain how our method can be used in the search for simple abelian varieties with extreme point counts.
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