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Special Colloquium/Candidate Presentation: Beyond the distributions of class groups

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
n/a
Location
245 Altgeld Hall
Date
Jan 14, 2022   3:00 pm  
Speaker
Yuan Liu (University of Michigan)
Contact
Iwan Duursma
E-Mail
duursma@illinois.edu
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Abstract: We will first review several heuristics on the distribution of Galois groups of unramified extensions of global fields, which includes the Cohen—Lenstra Heuristics regarding the class groups of quadratic number fields and the Friedman—Washington Heuristics regarding the Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves. We will then discuss how these heuristics relate to reasonable random group models, and discuss how the function field case is less difficult. Finally, we will explain new conjectures on the distributions of Galois groups of the maximal unramified extensions of Galois number fields or function fields for a fixed Galois group.

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