A geometric generalization of the square sieve with an application to cyclic covers over global function fields
ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY & NUMBER THEORY SEMINAR
Date
Thursday, December 16, 2021 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
A. C. Cojocaru (University of Illinois at Chicago and Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy)
Location
https://mathseminars.org/seminar/AGNTISTA
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
Mathematics and CS Seminar, mathematical_seminar_ics
Host
Tim Browning
Contact
We formulate a geometric generalization of the square sieve and use it to study the number of points of bounded height on a prime degree cyclic cover of the n-th projective space over $\mathbb{F}_q(T)$. This is joint work with Alina Bucur, Matilde N. Lalin, and Lillian B. Pierce