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Galois Seminar

Friday, February 26, 2021 - 3:15pm

Frauke Bleher

University of Iowa

Location

University of Pennsylvania

Online

The zoom link is: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/97216764677

In this talk I will describe joint work with Ted Chinburg on cup products in the etale cohomology of curves over finite fields. 

The main result for elliptic curves is that computing cup products of so-called "normalized classes" is no more difficult than computing the Weil pairing of torsion points.  For classes that are not normalized, a new pairing arises. We call this the Legendre derivative of Frobenius because of its formal similarity to the Legendre transform in real analysis. 

For higher genus curves, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the same statement about normalized classes to hold.  Already in genus 2 there are examples for which this condition does not hold.