Robin Hartshorne : On Noether's theorem

Posted by Lawrence Ein , part of the Departmental Colloquium.

At

April 11, 2008, 3 p.m.

In

Lecture Center D4

Abstract

Noether's theorem says that a surface of degree at least four in projective three-space contains only complete intersection curves. I will review the background and history of this result, and then show a modern proof using deformation theory.

Note: The talk will be at D4.