Mattias Jonsson : Complex and non-Archimedean geometry

Posted by Mihnea Popa , part of the Departmental Colloquium.

At

Feb. 22, 2013, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 636

Abstract

The common zero set of a collection of complex polynomials defines an analytic object, in nice cases a complex manifold. Berkovich spaces appear when trying to do the same thing for polynomials with coefficients in a non-Archimedean field, such as p-adic numbers or Laurent series. I will explain how Berkovich spaces can sometimes be used to study problems over the complex numbers and discuss some non-Archimedean analogues of results in complex geometry.