Goal: The aim of this seminar is to understand a new proof of the Mordell conjecture due to Lawrence and Venkatesh [LV], published in 2020.
Schedule: Every Friday afternoon, starting on April 16 2021.
Zoom link (ask Nicola for the password)
Oroganizers: Adrian I. and Nicola M.
PROGRAM
Introduction. Outlines of the proof of Faltings and Lawrence-Venkatesh.
Speaker: Adrian I.
Schedule: 16/04, at 14:00, Room 2BC60
The Shafarevich conjecture and the Kodaira-Parshin family of curves. Reduction of the Mordell conjecture to the Shafarevich conjecture.
References: [\S2; Dar], [\SS 2-3; Szp]
Speaker: Daniele T.
Schedule: 23/04, at 16:00, Room 1AD100
Proof of Faltings' theorem of the finiteness of the l-adic Galois representations with fixed Serre weights and bounded ramification.
References: [\SS 2.5&2.7; Dar], [Del]
Speakers: Eduardo W. and Shilung W.
Schedule: 30/04, at 16:00, Room 1AD100
The Tate conjecture for Abelian varieties over finite fileds (J. Tate) and number fields (G. Faltings).
Speaker: Yukihide N.
Schedule: 07/05, at 14:00, Room 2BC60
Algebraic de Rham cohomology
Speaker: Ernesto M.
Schedule: 14/05, at 14:00
Gauss-Manin connection for schemes over the complex numbers, versus over p-adics. Period mappings and Galois representations.
Speaker: Luca M. and Ernesto M.
Schedule: 21/05, at 14:00
Introduction to p-adic Hodge theory. The S-unit equation ([LV] \S 4.1, \S 4.2).
Speaker: Adrian I. and Nicola M.
Schedule: 04/06, at 14:00
Monodromy of Kodaira-Parshin families. ([LV], \S 8.)
Speaker: Remke K. 11/06 at 14:00
REFERENCES
[LV] B. Lawrence and A. Venkatesh.
Diophantine problems and p-adic period mappings. arXiv
This is the main reference
[Noo] M.P. Noordman.
Siegel's theorem via the Lawrence-Venkatesh method. arXiv
[Dar] H. Darmon.
Rational points on curves. PDF
Expository notes on Diophantine equations
[Del] P. Deligne.
Representation l-adiques. Numdam
Part of Asterisque 127
[Poo] B. Poonen.
A p-adic approach to rational points on curves. arXiv
A 12 pages gentle introduction to [LV]. Good for a first overview. See also the youtube lectures linked below
[Szp] L. Szpiro.
La conjecture de Mordell (d'après G. Faltings). Numdam
Overview of the Faltings proof
LINKS
2018 MIT (this is not direct, you should look for "2018 Fall" once in the page)