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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.
