James Freitag : Varieties over separably closed fields

Posted by , part of the Graduate Number Theory Seminar.

At

Jan. 26, 2011, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 427

Abstract

We will talk about varieties over separably closed fields of finite Ersov invariant. If time permits, we will talk about a functor from semiabelian varieties to their maximal divisible subgroups and what the failure of exactness of this functor says about descent problems.