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Speaker:
Damiano Testa
Zugehörigkeit:
Warwick
Datum:
Mit, 2012-03-21 14:15 - 15:15
Location:
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event:
Number theory lunch seminar A perfect cuboid is a parallelepiped with rectangular faces all of whose edges, face diagonals and long diagonal have integer length. A question going back to Euler asks for the existence of a perfect cuboid.
No perfect cuboid has been found, nor it is known that they do not exist.
In this talk I will talk about Siegel modular threefolds: these are certain moduli spaces of abelian surfaces with level structure. Then, I will proceed to show that the space of cuboids is a divisor in a one of these moduli spaces. Therefore the existence of a perfect cuboid is equivalent to the existence of special torsion structures in abelian surfaces defined over number fields.
