Thursday, January 29, 2015
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Number Theory Seminar
Series: Number Theory Seminar Series
On a motivic method in Diophantine geometry
Majid Hadian-Jazi,
Scott Russell Johnson Fellow,
Mathematics,
Caltech,
By studying variation of motivic path torsors associated to a variety, we show how certain nondensity assertions in Diophantine geometry can be translated to problems concerning K-groups. Concrete results then follow based on known (and conjectural) vanishing theorems.
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