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What should I read before reading about Arakelov theory?
I tried reading about Arakelov theory before, but I could never get very far. It seems that this theory draws its motivation from geometric ideas that I'm not very familiar with.
What should I read ...
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Special values of L-functions as periods
If $M$ is a pure motive over $\mathbb{Q}$, one cas define its $L$-function $L(M,s)$ which conjecturaly is a meromorphic function over $\mathbb{C}$ with finitely many poles.
For example, when $M=\...
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Shimura-Taniyama-Weil VS Grothendieck's dessins
When listening to the beautiful lectures by Gilles Schaeffer at
the SLC68, the following (perhaps crazy) question occurred to me:
did anyone attempt (succeed?) to combinatorially prove modularity of ...
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How should a number theorist learn a modest amount of algebraic geometry?
A little bit vague, but I hope useful for the entire community.
I am, by training, an analytic number theorist. I have managed to learn some algebraic geometry, by reading parts of Silverman's ...
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A road to inter-universal Teichmuller theory
What would be a study path for someone in the level of Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry to understand and study inter-universal Teichmuller (IUT) theory? I know that it heavily relies on anabelian ...
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What are the possible singular fibers of an elliptic fibration over a higher dimensional base?
An elliptic fibration is a proper morphism $Y\rightarrow B$ between varieties such that the fiber over a general point of the base $B$ is a smooth curve of genus one.
It is often required for the ...
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Etale site is useful - examples of using the small fppf site?
Edit: After the answers and comments, I'm hoping for a little bit of elaboration (in the comment to the answer below.) Also, question 2 was discussed here:
Points in sites (etale, fppf, ... )
There, ...
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Where's the best place for an algebraic geometer to learn some algebraic number theory?
There are lots of introductions to number theory out there, but typically they are streamlined to assume as little prerequisite knowledge as possible. I'm looking for a text which does the opposite -- ...
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Relatively concise English expositions of the proofs of the various Weil conjectures
Where can I find relatively concise (i.e. not excessively wordy and waxing poetic about history and intuitions and such, doesn't spend an eternity carefully developing various parts of the theory of ...
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Curves over number fields with everywhere good reduction
My question is the following:$\newcommand{\Q}{\Bbb Q}
\newcommand{\Z}{\Bbb Z}$
What is known about number fields $K$ fulfilling the condition
$C_{g,K}$ "there is a smooth projective curve of ...
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Mazur secret Bourbaki report "Analyse p-adique"
Does anyone happen to know if a scan of Mazur's report exists, and, if so, where to find it? It appears in the references for Katz's "Higher congruences" and "Eisenstein measure" papers.
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Deligne's letter to Bhargava from March 2004
I am quite interested in moduli spaces for Rings and Ideals, a letter from Deligne to Bhargava is cited in Melanie Wood's thesis Moduli spaces for Rings and Ideals (pdf), studying the minimal free ...
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Points of elliptic curves over cyclotomic extensions
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve over $\mathbb Q$. Let's look at the group of points of this elliptic curve over $\mathbb Q(1^{1/\infty})$ which we get after adding all roots of unity to $\mathbb Q$. It ...
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Ehresmann's theorem over the $p$-adics
I am looking for a version of Ehresmann's theorem for analytic manifolds over the $p$-adic numbers $\mathbb{Q}_p$ or, more generally, local fields. I follow the conventions from Serre's book "Lie ...
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Is there an analog of the Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture for abelian varieties in higher dimensions?
I am wondering if there is a multi-dimensional analog of the
Birch/Swinnerton-Dyer (BSD) conjecture.
The recent famous result inching toward resolution of that conjecture is:
Bhargava, Manjul, and ...
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Serre and Tate's conjectures on étale cohomology
In the appendix of Serre and Tate "Good Reduction of Abelian Varieties" [Annals of Mathematics 88 (1968), 492-517], the authors make the following conjectures.
Suppose that $X$ is a smooth proper ...
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Exposition of Drinfeld's proof of function field Langlands for GL(2)
I know, or think I know, the vague outline of the proof: the Galois-to-automorphic direction is "classical," i.e. follows from converse theorems due to Grothendieck et al., and for the ...
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For how many primes does an elliptic curve over a totally imaginary field have supersingular reduction?
An elliptic curve over a finite field, $k$, of characteristic p is called supersingular if it has no $p$-torsion over $k^{\mathrm{alg}}$, or equivalently, if $\mathrm{End}(E)$ is an order in a ...
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Deligne's letter to Piatetskii-Shapiro from 1973
Could anyone point me to a place where I could find Deligne's letter to Piatetskii-Shapiro from 1973? It is cited for example in Berkovich's "Vanishing cycles for formal schemes II".
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How do we deduce the Jacquet-Langlands correspondence from Fargues' two towers?
In trying to understand the geometric proof of the local-Langlands and Jacquet-Langlands correspondence which uses Fargues's two tower theorem, I am having trouble finding a nice source on this, and I ...
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Infinitely many integer solutions to $X^4+Y^4-18Z^4= -16$
We found infinitely many integer solutions to
$$X^4+Y^4-18Z^4= -16 \qquad (1)$$.
The interesting part in this diophantine equation is the sum of
the reciprocals of the degrees is $3/4 < 1$, which ...
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Weil's Riemann Hypothesis for dummies?
Weil's Riemann Hypothesis is a deep result that I don't fully understand, but it has understandable corollaries which interest me. For example:
(a) For any projective curve $X$ satisfying certain ...
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What is the Perrin-Riou logarithm (or regulator)?
Recently I've been rewatching some recordings of old talks on L-functions and explicit reciprocity laws (in particular, the series of talks by Loeffler and Zerbes given at this workshop at the CRM in ...
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Chow Groups of varieties over number fields
I believe that there is a conjecture that for any smooth projective variety $X$ over a number field $K$, its Chow groups $CH^i(X)$ (or at least $CH^i(X)\otimes_{\mathbf Z} \mathbf Q$) are finitely ...
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reference request: rational points on the unit sphere
I wonder what would be a good/early reference for the fact:
rational points on the unit sphere (centered at the origin) are dense.
Stereographic projection (from a rational point in the sphere) ...
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(Non-)Existence of curves of low degree on affine and projective varieties
I am interested in papers that investigates the existence or non-existence of curves of low degree (relative to the degree of the ambient variety). The starting example is that of surfaces and ...
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An arithmetic highest weight theory?
I apologize if these questions seem naive or loaded.
Is there an analogous theory of highest weights for irreducible finite-dimensional representations of Lie algebras of algebraic group (or perhaps ...
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Example of abelian variety over finite field which doesn't lift
What is an example of an abelian variety over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$ which doesn't lift to $\mathbb{Z}_p$? This question seems to hint that they should exist, but no example is given.
Note that ...
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Why is the CM-type preserved after base changing from char 0 to char p?
There is a transition in the theory of complex multiplication which seems to be glossed over in all expositions I can find. I would like to explicitly find a theorem that allows me to do this.
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Algebraic independence of exponentials
First of all, a happy new year. Be it better than 2015,
healthy, wealthy, fruitful and cross-fertilizing
for you, familly and friends.
In order to cope with families of solutions of evolution ...
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Semisimplicity of étale cohomology representations
Let $K$ be a number field and $G=Gal(\overline{K}/K)$ the absolute Galois group of $K$. Let $\ell$ be a prime number.
Let $A/K$ be an abelian variety. Then the representation of $G$ on $V_\ell(A)$ is ...
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Igusa's $\chi_{10}$ and Borcherds products
Igusa defined a genus 2 Siegel modular form $\chi_{10}$, which vanishes on the Humbert surface $G_{1}$ (the image of a "degenerate" Hilbert modular surface, the product of modular curves, ...
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Published reference on the automorphism group of modular curves $X_1(N)$?
I wish to cite that the automorphism groups of $X_1(N)$ have already been completely calculated, and what they are, but I am having difficulty finding this calculation in the literature.
I have ...
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Any simple concrete proof of Faltings theorem?
Are there simple proofs of some concrete special cases of Faltings's theorem? Any help would be appreciated.
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Modern Proof of the Theorem of the Base
I am looking for a modern proof of the so-called "Theorem of the Base"--that the Neron-Severi rank of a smooth projective variety is finite. One can prove this for varieties over $\mathbb{C}$ easily ...
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Grothendieck's motivation of crystalline cohomology
Here Illusie mentions Grothendieck's observation that using Gauss-Manin connection one can give a non-canonical isomorphism between de Rham cohomology of smooth schemes over $W(k)$ with isomorphic ...
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What is the motivation for excellent rings?
First of all I am not formally educated in mathematics so pardon my ignorance if this is obvious and I am skipping something vital, but I am interested nonetheless in what the original motivation and ...
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Basics on anabelian geometry and Grothendieck's section conjecture
Even I can find similar questions and some answers on that questions, most of them are not quite unsatisfactory to me. Maybe this is a very stupid question, but there is no other place that I can ask ...
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Lefschetz fixed-point theorem for the Frobenius map
Where can one find a proof of Lefschetz fixed-point theorem for the Frobenius map on elliptic curves over algebraic closures of $F_{p}$ ?
This could immediately follow if their coholomogies (for the ...
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Teichmuller groupoids in Grothendieck's esquisse d'un programme
Grothendieck in his Esquisse d'un programme mentioned without any precise definition and construction that the absolute Galois group $Gal(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q})$ acts on the whole "tower" ...
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What is the exact statement about uniform boundedness of rational points on curves of genus greater than one? Singular points can be unbounded
According to several sources, it is conjectured (or at least believed)
that the rational points of curves over the rationals of genus $g > 1$
are uniformly bounded by $g$. E.g. here p. 1.
Assuming ...
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Representation theory of Discrete Subgroups of Lie groups
My question is the following. Which representations of $Sp(2g, \mathbb Z)$ are extendable to representations of $Sp(2g, \mathbb C)$ or $Sp(2g, \mathbb R)$. Is there a general theory and a good ...
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Szpiro's conjecture for function fields and Mochizuki's approach to the number field case
Where can I find more details on the proof of Szpiro's conjecture for function fields, as mentioned in Minhyong Kim's answer to this MO question?
I am looking at this in the context of Mochizuki's ...
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Beilinson's height pairing vs. Néron–Tate
In the literature there are several different definitions of what is often referred to as Beilinson's height pairing (see for example section 4.3.8 of Gillet and Soulé's paper Arithmetic intersection ...
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Number of rational points over finite fields mod $q$ is birational invariant
I heard that if $\mathbf F_q$ is a finite field, $X, Y$ are birational smooth proper variety over $\mathbf F_q$, then $\#(X(\mathbf F_q)) \equiv \#(Y(\mathbf F_q)) \pmod q$, and I heard that the proof ...
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Looking for a paper of Hartshorne
In a famous paper
Hartshorne - Varieties of small codimension,
Hartshorne formulates a conjecture, which roughly says that varieties of small codimension in projective space are complete ...
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Good reduction for the universal elliptic curve
Let $X$ be a modular curve, i.e. a quotient of the upper half plane $\mathbb{H}$ by a congruence subgroup $\Gamma$. When $\Gamma=\Gamma_0(N)$, it is known that $X$ has a smooth model denoted $\mathcal{...
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Books building up to the Gross-Zagier formula
I am an undergrad extremely interested in some applications of the Gross-Zagier formula for elliptic curves. I have a strong foundation in group theory and abstract algebra, and an understanding of ...
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Geometric interpretation of Iwasawa algebras: $\mathbb{Z}_p[[T]]$ as a disk?
I am a student learning Iwasawa theory. I am so sorry if this post is too trivial for this site. I posted it on math.stackexchange yesterday but obtained no responce.
A quite basic object is the ...
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Survey of Algebraic K-Theory Since 1980?
I just came across Charles Weibel's Development of Algebraic K-Theory until 1980, and found it really helpful. Is there been anything analogous which surveys the developments in the last 30 years? I'...
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