Xudong Zheng : On the Inequality of Castelnuovo-Severi

Posted by Holly Krieger , part of the Graduate Number Theory Seminar.

At

Feb. 23, 2011, 3 p.m.

In

SEO 427

Abstract

The inequality of Castelnuovo-Severi concerns the self-intersection of a divisor of a surface, which can be proved by the Riemann-Roch theorem for surfaces. In this talk, we recover the classical proof of a part of Weil's conjecture for curves using this inequality.