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Algebra and Geometry Seminar

Monday, January 8, 2018
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Building 15, Room 104
The p-curvature conjecture and monodromy around simple closed loops
Ananth Shankar, Department of Mathematics, MIT,
The Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture is an analogue of the Hasse Principle for differential equations. It states that a set of arithmetic differential equations on a variety has finite monodromy if its p-curvature vanishes modulo p, for almost all primes p. We prove that if the variety is a generic curve, then every simple closed loop has finite monodromy.
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