AbstractManin’s conjecture is a conjectural asymptotic formula for the counting function of rational points on Fano varieties over global fields. With Brian Lehmann, I have been studying exceptional sets arising in this conjecture. In this talk I would like to discuss my joint work with Brian Lehmann and Akash Sengupta on birational geometry of exceptional sets, then I will discuss application...
Speaker: Hugh WoodinW. Hugh Woodin is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics at Harvard University. Woodin is a leading set theorist. He has made many notable contributions to the theory of inner models and determinacy, to functional analysis, and recursion theory. A type of large cardinal, the...