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Monday, May 09, 2022
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Online Event

Berkeley-Caltech-Stanford Joint Number Theory Seminar

CANCELLED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED -- Euler systems and the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian surfaces
Sarah Zerbes, Department of Mathematics, ETH,

Euler systems are one of the most powerful tools for proving cases of the Bloch--Kato conjecture, and other related problems such as the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.

I will recall a series of recent works (variously joint with Loeffler, Pilloni, Skinner) giving rise to an Euler system in the cohomology of Shimura varieties for GSp(4), and an explicit reciprocity law relating the Euler system to values of L-functions. I will then explain recent work with Loeffler, where we use this Euler system to prove new cases of the BSD conjecture for modular abelian surfaces over Q, and for modular elliptic curves over imaginary quadratic fields.

For more information, please contact Math Department by phone at 626-395-4335 or by email at [email protected].