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Speaker:
Matthew Bisatt
Affiliation:
King's College London/MPIM
Date:
Wed, 12/12/2018 - 14:30 - 15:30
Location:
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event:
Number theory lunch seminar Given an abelian variety over a global field, one of its most interesting invariants is its rank. This is notoriously difficult to compute, so instead we simply ask: is the rank is odd or even? The answer to this is (conjecturally) encoded in the corresponding root number.
I will explore what information one needs to compute a root number and how to extract this data for hyperelliptic curves. As an application, we will produce an example such that every quadratic twist should have positive rank.
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