Number Theory Seminar: Integral points on curves via Baker’s method and finite étale covers

SEMINARS, NUMBER THEORY

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October 18, 2023 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Science Center 507
Address: 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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.