Seminar series
Date
Wed, 20 May 2009
Time
11:30 -
12:30
Location
ChCh, Tom Gate, Room 2
Speaker
David Craven
Organisation
University of Oxford
We begin by proving the abc theorem for polynomial rings and looking at a couple of its consequences. We then move on to the abc conjecture and its equivalence with the generalized Szpiro conjecture, via Frey polynomials. We look at a couple of consequences of the abc conjecture, and finally consider function fields, where we introduce the abc theorem in that case.