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Departmental Colloquium


Date: Thursday, Feb 25, 2010

Time: 4:15PM

Location: JWB 335


Charles Favre

École Polytechnique

Title

Degree growth of rational maps

Abstract

Suppose we are given a rational map f : P^d -> P^d on a projective space. The most basic algebraic invariant that one can attach to this map is its degree defined as the degree of the preimage of a generic hyperplane. In this talk, we shall discuss the problem of describing the behaviour of the sequence deg(f^k) when k tends to infinity. The growth of degrees is an important issue in the study of the dynamics of rational maps on projective spaces.

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