Speaker: Andrew Best (BIMSA)Time: 12:45-13:25, Mar. 31, 2025Venue: A6-1Zoom: 388 528 9728Password: BIMSAAbstractTwo major intellectual developments, separated by almost a century, led eventually to the development of ergodic Ramsey theory from Newtonian dynamics. In this talk, we briefly explain these developments, spearheaded first by Poincar and Birkhoff and later by Furstenberg. We also men...
IntroductionThe notion of height was invented by André Weil to prove the famous Mordell's conjecture (if A is an abelian variety defined over a number field K, then A(K) is a finitely generated abelian group). In this class, we will study some properties of the logarithmic, absolute Weil height. We will also discuss about open problems related to this useful tool. At the end, we will construct ...