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Galois Seminar

Friday, June 3, 2005 - 3:15pm

Jing Long

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Note time change.

This talk is based on the class Makoto Matsumoto gave in the Arizona Winter School. To compute the Galois action on fundamental groups, it suffices to compute the element f_{sigma} for each sigma in G_Q. Consider the image of f_{sigma}, F_{sigma}=log(f_{sigma}^l), in the pro-l version of pi_1. Anderson, Coleman, and Ihara independently calculated the image in the quotient L'/[L',L'] involving the Soule's cocycle, using Jacobians of Fermat curve, Jacobi sums,etc. This talk will give a simple proof to verify some cases.