Wednesday, October 2, 2019
11:15am –
12:05pm
Storrs Campus
Monteith 313
A curve over a field of characteristic $$p$$ is called ordinary if the $$p$$ torsion of its Jacobian is the largest possible. But what is the probability that a curve is ordinary? I will talk about various perspectives on this question, including some heuristics about how random $$p$$-divisible groups behave. I will also talk about cases for which the answer is known, namely Artin-Schreier and superelliptic curves.
Contact: Mihai Fulger, mihai.fulger@uconn.edu
Algebra Seminar (primary), UConn Master Calendar