Gaus AG on the Hom-Conjecture

In this seminar, we try to understand Faltings' exposition of Mochizuki's proof of the Hom-conjecture. The main reference we will be using Faltings' article Curves and their fundamental groups; more references are listed in the program.

Organizers: Alexander Schmidt, Jakob Stix; Program proposal: Magnus Carlson, Ruth Wild

We meet on several Thursdays, from 14 - 18, alternating locations between Frankfurt and Heidelberg.

The precise dates are:

October 31 Frankfurt
November 21 Heidelberg
December 19 Frankfurt
January 16 Heidelberg
30 Frankfurt
February 06 Heidelberg

Location Frankfurt: Room 309, Robert-Mayer Straße 6-10 (📍)

Location Heidelberg: Hörsaal, Mathematikon, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205 (📍)

Program


Schedule

(updated on 11/20)

I Oct 31 1 Jakob Introduction
2 Jon Galois Cohomology and Hodge-Tate decomposition
II Nov 21 3 Leonie Unipotent Tannakian categories
~ ~ postponed
III Dec 19 4 Marius Construction of h and Hodge-Tateness of rational sections
5 Morten Bloch-Kato Selmer groups
IV Jan 16 6 Ruth Hodge-Tate sections are geometric up to torsion
7 Benjamin p-divisible groups
V Jan 30 8 Amine Tate-Conjecture
9 Magnus Sections geometric up to torsion
VI Feb 06 10 Tim Proof of main result

Useful links

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