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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Apr 3, 2018

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 222


Sarah Frei

University of Oregon

Title

Moduli spaces of sheaves on a K3 surface and Galois representations

Abstract

For a fixed K3 surface, we can study various moduli spaces of sheaves having a given topological type. Under appropriate conditions on the topological data, the moduli spaces are smooth projective varieties. I will discuss a new result about the geometry and arithmetic of these moduli spaces when the K3 surface is defined over an arbitrary field. For any two such moduli spaces of the same dimension, their étale cohomology groups with $\mathbb{Q}_\ell$-coefficients are isomorphic as Galois representations. In particular, when the K3 surface is defined over a finite field, this implies that the moduli spaces have equal zeta functions.

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