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Colloquium Series Seminar

Rational points on the cursed curve
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
4:00-5:00 PM
1360 East Hall Map
The split Cartan modular curve of level 13, also known as the "cursed curve," is a genus 3 curve defined over the rationals. By Faltings' proof of Mordell's conjecture, we know that it has finitely many rational points. However, Faltings' proof does not give an algorithm for finding these points. We discuss how to determine rational points on this curve using "quadratic Chabauty," part of Kim's nonabelian Chabauty program. This is joint work with Netan Dogra, Steffen Mueller, Jan Tuitman, and Jan Vonk.
Speaker(s): Jennifer Balakrishnan (Boston University)
Building: East Hall
Event Type: Workshop / Seminar
Tags: Mathematics
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Department of Mathematics, Colloquium Series - Department of Mathematics