Integral points on curves via Baker’s method and finite étale covers

Name: Integral points on curves via Baker’s method and finite étale covers
Start: 2023-10-18T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-10-18T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Science Center 507

SEMINARS: NUMBER THEORY

When: October 18, 2023

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Where: Science Center 507

Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Bjorn Poonen - MIT

We prove results in the direction of showing that for some affine curves, Baker’s method applied to finite étale covers is insufficient to determine the integral points.