Binghamton University


MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
COLLOQUIUM


DATE: December 10th, 2007
TIME: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
PLACE: LN2205
SPEAKER: Adrian Vasiu (Binghamton)
TITLE: Good reductions of abelian varieties over number fields.

Abstract


A complex abelian variety is the algebraic version of a compact, connected, commutative complex Lie group. They are embeddable into projective spaces and have many types of invariants. For instance, their Mumford--Tate groups are reductive groups over Q which can be viewed as analytic invariants. When the complex abelian varieties are definable over number fields, one associates to them several arithmetic invariants which encode their good reductions at finite primes. An old conjecture of Morita pertains to the impact of the Morita--Tate groups on the mentioned arithmetic invariants. We report on a solution of this conjecture in many general cases.

R E F R E S H M E N T S

3:30 to 4:00 PM
Kenneth W. Anderson
Memorial Reading Room