Abstract:We study rigid connections in the Spring of 2024.The main goal of this seminar is to study various results around rigid connections: existence of a Frobenius structure on a rigid connection due to Esnault–Groechenig [EG23], application to Simpson's integral conjecture, and the Fourier transform algorithm for rigid connections on the projective line due to Katz and Arinkin [Ari10].[Ari...
Abstract:I will explain the matrix local equations defining the moduli spaces of stable maps of arbitrary genus, found jointly by Jun Li and the speaker. These equations already guided us to find explicit global resolutions for these moduli spaces in the cases when the genera are one and two. By Murphy’s law, stable map moduli possess arbitrary singularities. Turning to this, I will explain La...