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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 225


Christian Liedtke

Stanford University / Universität Düsseldorf

Title

Elliptic K3 surfaces with p^n-torsion sections

Abstract

We classify K3 surfaces in positive characteristic p, which come with an elliptic fibration and a section of order p^n. Since such elliptic fibrations pull back from the universal elliptic curve over the Igusa curve, which is the characteristic p-analog of the modular curves, we get explicit equations. In particular, we can check arithmetic conjectures and find beautiful connections between arithmetic and geometry.

Algebraic Geometry

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