Tsinghua Icon Number Theory Group at Tsinghua University

Cup product and Sharifi's conjectures

Time: Wed, 26 Dec 2018, 15:20-16:55

Place: Lecture Hall, 3rd floor, Jin Chun Yuan West Building

Speaker: Jun Wang (University of British Columbia)

Abstract:

R. Sharifi formulated remarkable conjectures which relate the arithmetic of cyclotomic fields to Eisenstein quotient of the homology groups of modular curves. In this talk, I will give a brief introduction to Sharifi’s conjectures and explain the statuses of these conjectures.