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Prof. Victor Flynn

PhD (Cambridge).
Status
Academic Faculty
+44 1865 273549
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/flynn/
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3340-8868
Research groups
  • Number Theory
Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted publications
Homogeneous spaces and degree 4 del Pezzo surfaces
Flynn, E Manuscripta Mathematica volume 129 issue 3 369-380 (01 Jul 2009)
Cycles of covers
Flynn, E Wunderle, J Monatshefte fur Mathematik volume 157 issue 3 217-232 (01 Jul 2009)
Two-coverings of Jacobians of curves of genus two
Flynn, E Testa, D Luijk, R (08 May 2009) http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1242v1
Nontrivial Sha in the Jacobian of an Infinite Family of Curves of Genus 2.
Arnth-Jensen, A Flynn, E J. Theor. Nombres Bordeaux volume 21 1-9 (01 Apr 2009)
Descent via isogeny on elliptic curves with large rational torsion subgroups
Flynn, E Grattoni, C Journal of Symbolic Computation volume 43 issue 4 293-303 (01 Apr 2008)
Research interests

Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry. In particular, arithmetic problems on Abelian varieties, such as Jacobians of curves; properties of the Shafarevich-Tate group, visualisation, and the Brauer-Manin obstruction.

Recent publications
Arbitrarily large p-torsion in Tate-Shafarevich groups
Flynn, E Shnidman, A Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu (12 Nov 2024)
Isogenies on Kummer surfaces
Corte-Real Santos, M Flynn, E Mathematics of Computation (07 Nov 2024)
Genus two curves with full √3-level structure and Tate-Shafarevich groups
Bruin, N Flynn, E Shnidman, A Selecta Mathematica volume 29 issue 3 (19 May 2023)
Arbitrarily large 2-torsion in Tate-Shafarevich groups of Abelian varieties
Flynn, E Acta Arithmetica volume 191 101-114 (05 Sep 2019)
Genus two isogeny cryptography
Flynn, E Ti, Y PQCrypto 2019: Post-Quantum Cryptography volume 11505 286-306 (14 Jul 2019)
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