David Marker : From model theory to Diophantine geometry

Posted by Shmuel Friedland , part of the Departmental Colloquium.

At

Oct. 16, 2015, 3 p.m.

In

Lecture Center C4

Abstract

In the 90s model theorists introduced the notion of o-minimal geometry to find more general settings where results from real algebraic geometry could be extended. In recent years these ideas have found applications in Pila's work on the Andre-Oort Conjecture. I will survey some of these ideas and Pila and Zannier's application to give a new proof of the Manin-Mumford Conjecture.

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