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Abstract: | Abstract: We will discuss recent progress, joint with Akshay Venkatesh and Craig Westerland, towards the Cohen–Lenstra conjecture over the function field '''F'''<sub>''q''</sub>(''t''). There are two key novelties, one topological and one arithmetic. The first is a homotopy-theoretic description of the "moduli space of ''G''-covers with infinitely many branch points." The second is a description of the stable components of Hurwitz space over '''F'''<sub>''q''</sub>, as a module for Gal(<span style="text-decoration:overline;">'''F'''</span><sub>''q''</sub>/'''F'''<sub>''q''</sub>). At least half the talk will be devoted to explaining why these objects are relevant to a very down-to-earth question like Cohen–Lenstra. If time permits, I'll explain what this has to do with the conjectures Nigel spoke about two weeks ago, and a bit about what Daniel is up to. | ||
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September 13
| Nigel Boston (UW–Madison) |
| Title: Non-abelian Cohen–Lenstra heuristics |
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Abstract: In 1983, Cohen and Lenstra observed that the frequency with which a given abelian p-group A (p odd) arises as the p-class group of an imaginary quadratic field K is apparently proportional to 1/|Aut(A)|. The group A is isomorphic to the Galois group of the maximal unramified abelian p-extension of K. In work with Michael Bush and Farshid Hajir, I generalized this to non-abelian unramified p-extensions of imaginary quadratic fields. I shall recall all the above and describe a further generalization to non-abelian unramified p-extensions of H-extensions of Q, for any p, H, where p does not divide the order of H. |
September 20
| Simon Marshall (Northwestern) |
| Title: Multiplicities of automorphic forms on GL2 |
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Abstract: I will discuss some ideas related to the theory of p-adically completed cohomology developed by Frank Calegari and Matthew Emerton. If F is a number field which is not totally real, I will use these ideas to prove a strong upper bound for the dimension of the space of cohomological automorphic forms on GL2 over F which have fixed level and growing weight. |
September 27
| Jordan Ellenberg (UW–Madison) |
| Title: Topology of Hurwitz spaces and Cohen-Lenstra conjectures over function fields |
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Abstract: We will discuss recent progress, joint with Akshay Venkatesh and Craig Westerland, towards the Cohen–Lenstra conjecture over the function field Fq(t). There are two key novelties, one topological and one arithmetic. The first is a homotopy-theoretic description of the "moduli space of G-covers with infinitely many branch points." The second is a description of the stable components of Hurwitz space over Fq, as a module for Gal(Fq/Fq). At least half the talk will be devoted to explaining why these objects are relevant to a very down-to-earth question like Cohen–Lenstra. If time permits, I'll explain what this has to do with the conjectures Nigel spoke about two weeks ago, and a bit about what Daniel is up to. |
Organizer contact information
Sean Rostami
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