PIRSA:16120012

Periods, Motives, and graphical interpretations thereof

Patashnick, O. (2016). Periods, Motives, and graphical interpretations thereof. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/16120012

Patashnick, Owen. Periods, Motives, and graphical interpretations thereof. Perimeter Institute, Dec. 05, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16120012 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:16120012,
            doi = {10.48660/16120012},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16120012},
            author = {Patashnick, Owen},
            keywords = {Mathematical physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Periods, Motives, and graphical interpretations thereof},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2016},
            month = {dec},
            note = {PIRSA:16120012 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Owen Patashnick

University of Bristol

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Integral values of zeta functions are important not only for what they say about other values of their respective functions, but also for what they say about transcendence degree questions for appropriate extensions of the rationals or other number fields.  They  also appear in some recent computations relevant to particle physics.
In this talk we will give a quick introduction to the theory of periods and motives, relate said theory to special values of zeta functions, and discuss a graphical definition of the associated category of motives.
Any original work discussed in this talk is joint with Susama Agarwala.