Quantum Heisenberg categorification
Alistair Savage - University of Ottawa
Kim, M. (2019). Principal Bundles in Diophantine Geometry. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19030117
Kim, Minhyong. Principal Bundles in Diophantine Geometry. Perimeter Institute, Mar. 18, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19030117
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doi = {10.48660/19030117},
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author = {Kim, Minhyong},
keywords = {Mathematical physics},
language = {en},
title = {Principal Bundles in Diophantine Geometry},
publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
year = {2019},
month = {mar},
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Principal bundles and their moduli have been important in various aspects of physics and geometry for many decades. It is perhaps not so well-known that a substantial portion of the original motivation for studying them came from number theory, namely the study of Diophantine equations. I will describe a bit of this history and some recent developments.