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{\Large Department of Mathematics, BGU}

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{\Huge Jerusalem - Be'er Sheva Algebraic Geometry Seminar}\\[0.2\baselineskip]

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\textbf{On} \emph{Wednesday, December 30, 2020}
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\textbf{At} \emph{15:00 -- 16:30}
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{\large\scshape Padmavathi Srinivasan 
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{\Large\bfseries Some Galois cohomology classes arising from the fundamental group of a curve\par}
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\textsc{Abstract:}
We will talk about a few Galois cohomology classes naturally arising from the fundamental group of a curve.

We will first talk about the Ceresa class, which is the image under a cycle class map of a canonical algebraic cycle associated to a curve in its Jacobian. This class vanishes for all hyperelliptic curves and was expected to be nonvanishing for non-hyperelliptic curves. In joint work with Dean Bisogno, Wanlin Li and Daniel Litt, we construct a non-hyperelliptic genus 3 quotient of the Fricke-Macbeath curve with vanishing Ceresa class, using the character theory of the automorphism group of the curve, namely, PSL\_2(F\_8).

In joint work with Wanlin Li, Daniel Litt and Nick Salter, we study two Galois cohomology classes (one abelian and one non-abelian), that obstruct the existence of rational points on curves, by obstructing splittings to natural exact sequences coming from the fundamental groups of a curve. An analysis of the degeneration of these classes at the boundary of the moduli space of curves, combined with a specialization argument lets us produce infinitely many curves of each genus over p-adic fields and number fields that have no rational points, explained by the nonvanishing of these obstruction classes. Our arguments give a new proof of Grothendieck's section conjecture for the generic curve of genus g \textgreater{} 2.








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