Seminar series
Date
Thu, 05 Mar 2015
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L2
Speaker
John Cremona
Organisation
University of Warwick
I will describe joint work with Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) and Tom Fisher (Cambridge) in which we determine the probability that random equation from certain families has a solution either locally (over the reals or the p-adics), everywhere locally, or globally. Three kinds of equation will be considered: quadratics in any number of variables, ternary cubics and hyperelliptic quartics.