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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Nov 29, 2016

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 222


Jeff Achter

Colorado State University

Title

Distinguished models of intermediate Jacobians

Abstract

Consider a smooth projective variety over a number field. The image of the associated (complex) Abel-Jacobi map inside the (transcendental) intermediate Jacobian is a complex abelian variety. We show that this abelian variety admits a distinguished model over the original number field, and use it to address a problem of Mazur on modeling the cohomology of an arbitrary smooth projective variety by that of an abelian variety. (This is joint work with Sebastian Casalaina-Martin and Charles Vial.)

Algebraic Geometry

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