Instructional Workshop - Surfaces: Geometry and Arithmetic
Instructional Workshop - Surfaces: Geometry and Arithmetic
Monday 14th April - Friday 18th April 2008
This school is part of the April–June Active Period in Arithmetic Geometry and the 2007-2008 Warwick Maths Institute EPSRC Symposium.
Day 1:- Picard group and easy examples
- Canonical divisor on hypersurface of degree d hypersurface in P^n (complete interscetions in exercises)
- classification and the minimal model program
- Picard group of del Pezzo surfaces, mentioning: Riemann-Roch on surfaces, genus and effectivity of (-1)-curves, the adjunction formula
- Root lattices and their automorphism groups
- Segre-Manin theorem for degree at least 4 (minus one for exercises) (S-M says existence of a rational point implies that rational points are Zariski-dense)
- Segre-Manin for degree 3 del Pezzos
- Growth of rational points of bounded height
- explicitly computed examples of Brauer-Manin obstructions through quadratic reciprocity, the unenlightning way.
- central simple algebras and Brauer groups
- reformulate easy examples the enlightning way
- harder Brauer-Manin obstruction examples (e.g. cubic surfaces) with given algebra
- What was done to find the algebra?
- Further directions. Brauer-Manin is not the only one, when is it?
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