Vojta's approach to the Mordell conjecture II
Niven Achenjang (MIT)
Abstract: We will sketch Bombieri's simplification of Vojta's proof.
References: Chapter 11 of Bombieri and Gubler, Heights in diophantine geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2006. and/or Part E of Hindry and Silverman, Diophantine geometry, Springer, 2000.
algebraic geometrynumber theory
Audience: advanced learners
Series comments: STAGE (Seminar on Topics in Arithmetic, Geometry, Etc.) is a learning seminar in algebraic geometry and number theory, featuring speakers talking about work that is not their own. Talks will be at a level suitable for graduate students. Everyone is welcome.
Spring 2024 topic: The contents of Serre, Lectures on the Mordell-Weil theorem
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Organizers: | Raymond van Bommel*, Edgar Costa*, Bjorn Poonen*, Shiva Chidambaram* |
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