Back to Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Spring 2017
Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Date: Tuesday, Feb 21, 2017
Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM
Location: LCB 219
Room Change: JWB 333
Donghai Pan
Stanford University
Title |
Galois cyclic covers of the projective line and pencils of Fermat hypersurfaces |
Abstract |
Classically, there are two objects that are particularly interesting to algebraic geometers: hyperelliptic curves and quadrics. The connection between these two seemingly unrelated objects was first revealed by M. Reid, which roughly says that there’s a correspondence between hyperelliptic curves and pencil of quadrics. I’ll give a brief review of Reid’s work and then describe a higher degree generalization of the correspondence. |
Algebraic Geometry