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- Next seminar: Today16:00Jay SwarAbstract
In 1983, Faltings proved Mordell's conjecture on the finiteness of $K$-points on curves of genus >1 defined over a number field $K$ by proving the finiteness of isomorphism classes of isogenous abelian varieties over $K$. The "first" major step from Mordell's conjecture to what Faltings did came 15 years earlier when Parshin showed that a certain conjecture of Shafarevich would imply Mordell's conjecture. In this talk, I'll focus on motivating and sketching Parshin's argument in an accessible manner and provide some heuristics on how to get from Faltings' finiteness statement to the Shafarevich conjecture.
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