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Galois Seminar

Friday, January 31, 2020 - 3:15pm

Bharath Palvannan

National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan Univ.

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

In classical Iwasawa theory, one studies a relationship called the Iwasawa main conjecture, between an analytic object (the p-adic L-function) and an algebraic object (the Selmer group).  This relationship involves codimension one cycles of an Iwasawa algebra.  The topic of higher codimension Iwasawa theory, initiated by Bleher-Chinburg-Greenberg-Kakde-Pappas-Sharifi-Taylor, seeks to generalize this relationship. We will describe one such result using codimension two cycles, involving elliptic curves with supersingular reduction. This is joint work with Antonio Lei.