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Number Theory Seminar

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Mathematics
Location
Altgeld Hall 145
Date
Oct 14, 2025   11:00 - 11:50 am  
Speaker
Ken Willyard (UIUC)
Contact
Yuan Liu
E-Mail
yyyliu@illinois.edu
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Number Theory Seminar Calendar

Title: The imaginary case of the nonabelian Cohen--Lenstra heuristics

AbstractThe Cohen-Lenstra heuristics predict the distribution of class groups of quadratic number fields. These conjectures are wide open, but nevertheless has been generalized in several different directions, including a non-abelian generalization by Liu, Wood, and Zureick-Brown replacing quadratic extensions with certain totally real Galois extensions and class groups with Galois groups of certain unramified extensions of global fields. In this talk, I will discuss an imaginary analogue of the work of Liu, Wood, and Zureick-Brown by providing the group presentation for these Galois groups that suggests the non-abelian Cohen-Lenstra heuristics in the imaginary case, and giving an idea of the proof of a weak version of these heuristics in the function field case. This work is joint with Yuan Liu.

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