I'm not an Associate Professor so I can't supervise a graduate student!
e-mail: kaiw(a)tohoku.ac.jp
April 2025: Recording of my talk at Motives in Tokyo 2025 is now available:
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/video/conference/2025Motives_in_Tokyo/cf2024-402.html
April 2024: After being in Milan for 2 years, now I'm back in Sendai.
March 2024: new preprint
"Equi-dimensionalization via subdivision of simplices"
Photo: April 2022,
Lake Maggiore, Italy
Equi-dimensionalization via subdivision of simplices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03062
Linear patterns in prime elements in number fields.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16983
Notes on Mitsui's Prime Number Theorem with Siegel zeros. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11816
The Green-Tao theorem for affine curves over F_q. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00839
Constellations in prime elements of number fields. Joint with Masato Mimura, Akihiro Munemasa, Shin-ichiro Seki and Kiyoto Yoshino. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.15669
Unramified logarithmic Hodge--Witt cohomology and P^1-invariance. Joint with Shusuke Otabe and Takao Yamazaki. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma, Volume 10, 2022, e19.
https://www.doi.org/10.1017/fms.2022.6 [open access!]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07433
Isomorphism up to bounded torsion between relative K_0-groups and Chow groups with modulus. with Ryomei Iwasa, Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu, Volume 20, Issue 6, November 2021, 1947--1968.
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474748020000055 [open access!]
arxiv:1811.04675 [math.KT]
A moving lemma for algebraic cycles with modulus and contravariance. [Based on my doctoral thesis.]
International Mathematics Research Notices IMRN, Volume 2021, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 475–522.
https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnz018 [open access!]
arXiv:1507.07619 [math.AG]
Chern classes with modulus. with Ryomei Iwasa, Nagoya Math. J., 236 (2019) Shuji Saito 60 volume, 84-133
https://doi.org/10.1017/nmj.2018.52
arXiv:1611.07882 [math.KT]
An online talk by my co-author.
[Warning] There has been found a gap in the proof of the Whitney sum formula. Specifically, Proposition 3.4 doesn't follow so easily from the commutative diagram (11). Please wait for an update, although I haven't been able to have enough time for this. (08 May 2021)
Notes on a p-adic exponential map for the Picard group. TOKYO J. MATH. VOL. 42, NO. 1, 2019, 35--49.
DOI: 10.3836/tjm/1502179262
arXiv:1309.6186 [Based on my master's thesis.]
Suslin’s moving lemma with modulus. with H. Miyazaki. Ann. K-theory 3 (1) 2018, 55-70. https://doi.org/10.2140/akt.2018.3.55
arXiv:1604.04356
Torsion and divisibility for reciprocity sheaves and 0-cycles with modulus. with F. Binda, J. Cao, R. SugiyamaJ. Algebra 469 (2017) 437–463.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2016.07.036
arXiv:1503.02161 [Based on our collaboration during my visit to Essen in summer 2014.]
A higher-dimensional generalization of Lichtenbaum duality in terms of the Albanese map. Compos. Math. 152 (2016) 1915–1934.
https://doi.org/10.1112/S0010437X16007600
arXiv:1512.02026
素数の組み合わせ論の高次元化---数体の素元に隠れた「星座」 (= Combinatorics of prime numbers in higher dimensions---"constellations" hidden in prime elements of number fields), 東北大学理学研究科・理学部ページ「お知らせ」2025年1月23日
https://www.sci.tohoku.ac.jp/news/20250123-13546.html
数体におけるGreen-Taoの定理. (In Japanese. "The Green-Tao theorem for number fields") in RIMS Kôkyûroku No.2225 代数的整数論とその周辺 Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics. Not peer-reviewed. 4 figures.
https://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kyodo/kokyuroku/contents/2225.html
Chow's moving lemma with modulus.in K-Theory (the Proceedings of International Colloquium 2016 on K-theory TIFR), 127--142, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, India, 2018.
See here for an almost comprehensive list of talks
数体の素元に現れる線形パターン (= Linear patterns of prime elements in number fields)
日本数学会東北支部会, 2025年2月15日(15分間). http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/MSJ/shibukai2024.html
東北大学数学専攻談話会, 2025年1月27日.
神楽坂代数セミナー, 東京理科大学 (東京都千代田区), 2024年12月5日. https://www.rs.tus.ac.jp/kida/seminar2024.html
Linear patterns of prime elements in number fields
代数的整数の中で「素数」はどう配置されているか (= How are "primes" located in algebraic integers?)
2024年6月20日, 基礎数学セミナー, NTT基礎数学研究センタ(オンライン)
https://www.rd.ntt/ifm/topics/lecture-20240620.html
Techniques to move algebraic cycles, old and new
Seminar on periods and motives, 清華大学丘成桐数学科学中心 (Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University), China (online), 25 April 2024.
https://ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/1053/3465.htm
Video recording:
http://archive.ymsc.tsinghua.edu.cn/pacm_lecture?html=Techniques_to_move_algebraic_cycles_old_and_new.html
The Green-Tao Theorem for number fields and beyond
The Green-Tao theorem for number fields (and beyond).
The Green-Tao theorem for number fields
Yatsugatake Workshop 2025 (along with many co-organizers)
Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2023 (as a program committee member)
Singularities and Arithmetic, 2020 (as one of the local organizers)
Yatsugatake workshop 2019 (along with many co-organizers)
Yatsugatake workshop 2016 (along with co-organizers)
(Co)organizer of Algebra Seminar of Tohoku University, 2024-2025
(Co)organizer of Number Theory Seminar of Tohoku University, 2018-2023
Events and institutions visited since 2018
2025:
Motives in Tokyo 2025
https://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~kelly/Motives2025/motives2025.html
Algebraic geometry: a motivic view. Conference in honour of Marc Levine
https://math.ethz.ch/fim/activities/conferences/Algebraic-geometry-a-motivic-view.ht`ml
2024:
Nobuo Tsuzuki 60 (Sendai)
https://www.tfc.tohoku.ac.jp/other-activity/7129.html
L-functions and Motives in Niseko
https://sites.google.com/faculty.gs.chiba-u.jp/lmn2024
Yatsugatake Workshop 2024 Chromatic Homotopy Theory
https://www.lcv.ne.jp/~smaki/ja/yatugatakeWS/index.html
New Directions in Rational Points (7-12 Jan.)
https://www.birs.ca/events/2024/5-day-workshops/24w4002
2023:
Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics 2023 (11-15 Dec.) https://sites.google.com/view/rims-ant2023/
Haramura 2023 (6-10 Sep.)
http://www.lcv.ne.jp/~smaki/en/yatsugatakeWS/index.html
A Festival Remembering Victor Snaith: Topology, Number Theory and Interaction (July)
https://heilbronn.ac.uk/2022/07/25/remembering-vic-snaith/Random Matrices from Quantum Chaos to the Riemann Zeta Function
- A Celebration in Honour of Jon Keating’s 60th Birthday
Gruppen und topologische Gruppen (Milan)
https://www.gtgconference.eu/Next.html
A Panorama of Homotopy Theory --- A Conference in Honour of Mike Hopkins (June)
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/groups/topology/panorama-homotopy-theoryGauge Fields in Arithmetic, Topology & Physics. (Mar)
https://www.icms.org.uk/GaugeFieldsMotives in Tokyo (Feb)
2022: Harnessing motivic invariants (Essen)
The University of Milan (03.2022--03.2024)
2021: Algebraic Number Theory and Related Topics, Kyoto University RIMS (12.2021)
2020: The University of Milan (03.2020)
2019: NCMW - The Bloch-Kato conjecture (IISER Pune, India)
TIFR, Mumbai, India (19.12.2019--17.01.2020)
Motives in Tokyo
Asia-Australia Algebra Conference, Sydney
2018: Haramura Workshop 2018
Voevodsky Memorial
Motives in St. Petersburg (1st week)
Motivic homotopy theory and enumerative geometry (Essen)
Motives in Tokyo 2018 (Shuji Saito 60)
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wataru-kai-6084542b
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4920-8043
科研費データベース: https://nrid.nii.ac.jp/ja/nrid/1000000804296/
若手研究「数体における加法的整数論」2022-2026 (合計416万円 = approx. 27,000 USD in total)
JSPS KAKENHI grant JP22K13886
若手研究「モジュラス付きChern類と代数的サイクルの高次の構造」2018-2023 (合計315万円 = approx. 20,000 USD in total)
JSPS KAKENHI grant JP18K13382
JSPS海外特別研究員: https://www.jsps.go.jp/j-ab/ab_list/list_r2.html
Links to some arXiv pages:
https://arxiv.org/list/math.AG/recent
https://arxiv.org/list/math.AT/recent
https://arxiv.org/list/math.CT/recent
https://arxiv.org/list/math.KT/recent
https://arxiv.org/list/math.NT/recent
https://arxiv.org/help/faq/whytex#comments (how to automatically delete embarrassing comments from a LaTeX file)
Lists of upcoming events that I sometimes check:
researchseminars.org https://researchseminars.org
Ravi Vakil's https://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/conferences.html
Kiran Kedlaya's: https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~kedlaya/cgi-bin/confs.cgi
London Math Soc's calendar: https://www.lms.ac.uk/events/calendar
Hiro Lee Tanaka's: https://www.hiroleetanaka.com/index.php?pageID=conferences
AMS's calender: https://www.ams.org/cgi-bin/mathcal/mathcalendar.pl
COMS: https://conference-service.com/conferences/mathematics.html
Number Theory Conferences, new and old: http://www.numbertheory.org/ntw/N3.html
London School of Economics: http://www.maths.lse.ac.uk/Personal/jan/conferences.html#other
Oxford Number Theory Seminar: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/groups/number-theory
GeCo Ged (complex and diff. geometry)i: https://gecogedi.dimai.unifi.it