Back to Departmental Colloquium: Fall 2000
Departmental Colloquium
Date: Thursday, Dec 7, 2000
Time: 4:15PM
Location: JWB 335
Lev A. Borisov
Columbia
Title |
Toric varieties and modular forms |
Abstract |
Toric varieties are special algebraic varieties defined by some combinatorial data. It turns out that these data also define certain modular forms on the upper half plane, which we call toric forms. Linear span of toric forms has non-trivial number-theoretic properties, related to the conjecture of Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer. |
Number Theory
Algebraic Geometry
Combinatorics