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Bounding torsion in geometric families of abelian varieties

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Benjamin Bakker (HU Berlin) - Seminar Algebraische Geometrie (SAG)

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  • Seminar
When Jan 15, 2015
from 10:30 am to 11:30 am
Where Bonn, Hörsaal MPI, Vivatsgasse 7
Contact Name sachinidis
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 A celebrated theorem of Mazur asserts that the order of the torsion part of the group of rational points of an elliptic curve over Q is absolutely bounded; it is conjectured that the same is true for abelian varieties over number fields K, though very little progress has been made in proving it. The natural geometric analog where K is replaced by the function field of a complex curve---known as the geometric torsion conjecture---is equivalent to the nonexistence of low genus curves in congruence towers of the moduli space of abelian varieties. In joint work with J. Tsimerman, we prove the this conjecture for abelian varieties with real multiplication. We will discuss a general method for bounding the genera of curves in locally symmetric varieties using hyperbolic geometry to bound Seshadri constants and apply it to some related problems.

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