LECTURE SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT - "Inclusion-exclusion in topology and (kind(s) of) arithmetic”
The first talk will cover all the prerequisites. The other talks should be accessible to anyone who knows cohomology and has heard of spectral sequences.
3:30 - 4:30 pm, Seminar Hall
Topology and arithmetic: some real, imaginary and complex bridges
Ronno Das
University of Chicago.
28-08-19

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Abstract

We will discuss connections between certain theorems in topology and in arithmetic, specifically homological stability, stability in point counts and zeta functions. Some of these connections are theorems and some are heuristics. Our typical example will be the configuration space of n distinct points on the complex plane, also thought of as the space of non-singular polynomials of degree n.