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Algebra Seminar

Monday, November 25, 2013 - 4:00pm

Florian Sprung

Princeton University

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Tea will be served at 3 PM in the Lounbge

The Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves (and modular forms) relates two distant objects: On the analytic side, we have p-adic L-functions, whereas on the algebraic side, we have Selmer groups. This theory has traditionally been in better shape at good ordinary primes, whereas in the good supersingular case, the analogous objects don´t behave as well. In this talk, we introduce a *pair* of convenient objects in the supersingular case and derive some arithmetic consequences whose true origins still are a mystery.