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The Oort Conjecture on Lifting Covers of Curves

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Speaker: 
Florian Pop
Affiliation: 
UPenn
Date: 
Wed, 2012-05-30 14:15 - 15:15
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Number theory lunch seminar

I plane to give a sketch of a proof of Oort's conjecture on lifting covers of curves from
positive characteristic to characteristic zero. The main ingredients in the proof is a very
recent special but critical case of the conjecture proved by Obus--Wewers and a deformation
argument in characteristic p.
 

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