Seminar series
Date
Fri, 09 Nov 2007
14:15
14:15
Location
L3
Speaker
Jonathan Kirby
Organisation
Oxford
I will push Schanuel's conjecture in four directions: defining a dimension
theory (pregeometry), blurred exponential functions, exponential maps of
more general groups, and converses. The goal is to explain how Zilber's
conjecture on complex exponentiation is true at least in a "geometric"
sense, and how this can be proved without solving the difficult number
theoretic conjectures. If time permits, I will explain some connections
with diophantine geometry.