Seminar series
Date
Thu, 20 Oct 2016
16:00
16:00
Location
L6
Speaker
Minhyong Kim
Organisation
Oxford
Abstract: We will recall some analogies between structures arising from three-manifold topology and rings of integers in number fields. This can be used to define a Chern-Simons functional on spaces of Galois representations. Some sample computations and elementary applications will be shown.