In this talk, I will introduce a new framework for working with moduli stacks in enumerative geometry, aimed at generalizing existing theories of enumerative invariants counting objects in linear categories, such as Donaldson–Thomas theory, to general, non-linear moduli stacks. This involves a combinatorial object called the component lattice, which is a globalization of the cocharacter lattice and the Weyl group of an algebraic group.

Several important results and constructions known in linear enumerative geometry can be extended to general stacks using this framework. For example, Donaldson–Thomas invariants can be defined for a general class of stacks, not only linear ones such as moduli stacks of sheaves. As another application, under certain assumptions, the cohomology of a stack, which is often infinite-dimensional, decomposes into finite-dimensional pieces carrying enumerative information, called BPS cohomology, generalizing a result of Davison–Meinhardt in the linear case.

This talk is based on joint works with Ben Davison, Daniel Halpern-Leistner, Andrés Ibáñez Núñez, Tasuki Kinjo, and Tudor Pădurariu.

For $\ell$ an odd prime number and $d$ a squarefree integer, a notable problem in arithmetic statistics is to give pointwise bounds for the size of the $\ell$-torsion of the class group of $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{d})$. This is in general a difficult problem, and unconditional pointwise bounds are only available for $\ell = 3$ due to work of Pierce, Helfgott—Venkatesh and Ellenberg—Venkatesh. The current record due to Ellenberg—Venkatesh is $h_3(d) \ll_\epsilon d^{1/3 + \epsilon}$. We will discuss how to improve this to $h_3(d) \ll d^{0.32}$. This is joint work with Peter Koymans.

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