Krishna Kumar Madhavan Vijayalakshmi
3/28/25, 12:00 PM
In 1935 Whitehead published a purported proof on Poincaré conjecture unveiling an homotopical obstruction to unique characterization of R^n among open contractible n-manifolds. However, it is now a fact that for all n>2, R^n is the unique open contractible n-manifold that is simply connected at infinity. The analogous question in algebraic geometry is to characterize the affine n-space among...
Victor Chachay
3/28/25, 3:30 PM
When computing enumerative invariants on algebraic surfaces, one often has to work over an algebraically closed field. We will use an example to highlight the problems on other fields and how the motivic theory is a way to go around it.