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Speaker:
Kai Behrend
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Date:
Wed, 14/03/2018 - 15:00 - 16:00
Location:
MPIM Lecture Hall The Tamagawa number of a semi-simple simply connected group over a function field is equal to 1, and the space of connections on a principal bundle is contractible. In the 1980s, Professor Harder pointed out to me the intriguing but mysterious relationship between these two statements. A recent proof of Weil's Tamagawa number conjecture in the function field case by Gaitsgory and Lurie using derived geometry sheds new light on this old conundrum. I will report on this and related work.
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