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Galois Seminar

Friday, June 24, 2005 - 3:15pm

Asher Auel

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

In 1997, Kotchetkov conjectured that the valency class of diameter four trees of (generic) type (a,b,c,d,e) splits into at least two Galois orbits if abcde(a+b+c+d+e) is a square. Zapponi proves a stronger version of this conjecture for general trees using a novel bijection between dessins d'enfants and integral oriented ribbon graphs that are the critical graphs of Strebel differentials. Under this bijection the "deformation" of a dessin d'enfant is possible, and an associated moduli space is constructed. Beforehand, we'll wrap-up the previous talk with a few additional details on lifting trees from positive characteristic. We'll introduce additional combinatorial data associated to a diameter four tree relating to the ramification indices of primes in its moduli field and a process of reducing questions of wild ramification to the tame case.