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Galois Seminar

Wednesday, August 22, 2001 - 3:00pm

Leila Schneps

Universite de Paris VI

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

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Let F be the free graded Lie algebra generated by one generator e_i in rank i for each odd i greater than or equal to 3. A graded Lie algebra appears naturally in four different mathematical contexts: Galois actions, Grothendieck-Teichmuller group, mixed Tate motives and multizeta values. Conjecturally, the Lie algebras in all four cases are isomorphic to F and thus to each other. This provides several specific and fascinating links between these subjects. In particular we will present Furusho's fascinating recent result relating GT to multizeta values.