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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Apr 19, 2016

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: JFB 102


Yuan Wang

University of Utah

Title

Generic Vanishing and Classification of Irregular Surfaces in Positive Characteristics

Abstract

The Enriques-Kodaira classification of surfaces is one of the most celebrated accomplishments toward understanding algebraic varieties. A detailed classification of surfaces of general type, however, seems to be very difficult. Several cases of this kind are known in characteristic 0. In my talk I would like to present a classification result for surfaces of general type in positive characteristics, and in particular we work on surfaces with Euler characteristic 1 and Albanese dimension 4. This project is inspired by a paper of Hacon and Pardini but contains a lot of new ideas, including the construction of a generic vanishing theorem for surfaces that lift to W_2(k), the second Witt vectors.

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