Height of rational points on random Fano hypersurfaces
Date
Thursday, October 11, 2018 13:30 - 15:30
Speaker
Pierre Le Boudec (University of Basel)
Location
Big Seminar room Ground floor / Office Bldg West (I21.EG.101)
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
Mathematics and CS Seminar, mathematical_seminar_ics
Host
Tim Browning
Contact
Given a variety V defined over the field of rational numbers, a height function is a tool designed to study the "size" or the "complexity" of the rational points on V. When the set of rational points of V is non-empty, it is natural to ask what can be said about the minimal height of a rational point on V. In this talk I will make this question more precise and I will present results dealing with the case of families of Fano hypersurfaces.