Fundamental Groups in Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry
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Mon 16 Dec, 16:30 - 17:30, Aula Dini
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Etale contractible varieties in positive characteristic
speaker: Jakob Stix (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)abstract: Classical homotopy theory is based on the idea of contracting the interval. In etale homotopy theory, at least in characteristic 0, the affine line provides an algebraic analogue of the interval. However, in positive characteristic p > 0 the affine line badly fails to be contractible: it admits nontrivial etale covers. The talk reports joint work with Armin Holschbach and Johannes Schmidt about the prospects of varieties in characteristic p>0 to be etale contractible.
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Mon 16 Dec, 16:30 - 17:30, Aula Dini
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