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Algebra Seminar

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 4:00pm

Philippe Cassou-Nogues

Univ. of Bordeaux

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C6

Note: The algebra seminar meets twice this week.

This talk is about work with M. Taylor and B. Erez on invariants of vector bundles on projective schemes which have an action of a finite group and and an equivariant symmetric perfect bilinear pairing. We generalize to this context results of Serre and Frohlich on Hasse Witt and Stiefel Whitney class invariants associated to orthogonal representations of Galois groups.