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Algebraic Geometry Seminar


Date: Tuesday, Sep 17, 2019

Time: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Location: LCB 222


Adrian Langer

University of Warsaw

Title

Nearby-cycles and semipositivity in positive characteristic

Abstract

I will talk about an analogue of Hodge theory in positive characteristic. In particular, I will show analogues of Schmid’s nilpotent orbit theorem and nearby cycles in positive characteristic. As an application I will prove some strong semipositivity theorems for analogs of complex polarized variations of Hodge structures. This implies semipositivity for the relative canonical divisor of a semistable reduction and it also gives some new results over complex numbers.

Algebraic Geometry

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