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Galois Seminar

Friday, December 5, 2003 - 3:00pm

Oliver Watson

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

We discuss the proof of the last remaining case of the Tate Conjecture for Drinfeld modules, namely the case of "equal characteristic". The main tool is the proof of an analogue of a famous theorem of de Jong on homomorphisms of F-crystals.