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Fixed Points in Toroidal Compactifications and Essential Dimension of Covers

Offered By: IMSA via YouTube

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Algebraic Geometry Courses Shimura Varieties Courses Hodge Theory Courses

Course Description

Overview

Explore the concept of essential dimension in algebraic geometry through this 57-minute lecture by Patrick Brosnan from the University of Maryland. Delve into the numerical measure of complexity for algebraic objects, invented by J. Buhler and Z. Reichstein in the 1990s. Examine how essential dimension relates to the number of parameters needed to define an object over a field, using examples like mu_n torsors. Investigate recent work by Brosnan and Najmuddin Fakhruddin, which recovers and extends results from Farb, Kisin, and Wolfson's 2019 preprint on the essential dimension of congruence covers of Shimura varieties. Learn about a new fixed point theorem and its applications to incompressibility results, including cases involving Shimura varieties of exceptional type. Consider a general conjecture on the essential dimension of congruence covers arising from Hodge theory, and explore its implications for the dimension of the image of the period map.

Syllabus

Introduction
The pullback dimension
The essential dimension
Essential dimension of groups
Big problems in essential dimension
The modulized space
Fkw theorem
Fixed point method
Theorem
Proof
Our initial idea
The Theorem
Congruence Covers
conjectures


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IMSA

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