School of Mathematics Colloquium

Zeta-functions and Weil-etale cohomology of number rings

Name: Zeta-functions and Weil-etale cohomology of number rings
Start: 2010-03-02T17:00:00+05:30
End: 2010-03-02T18:00:00+05:30
Location: Colaba Campus

by Prof. Stephen Lichtenbaum (Brown University, U.S.A.)

Tuesday 2 Mar 2010, 17:00 → 18:00 Asia/Kolkata

AG-66 (Colaba Campus)

AG-66

Colaba Campus

Description

We will define Weil-etale Euler characteristics and explain how they can be used to describe the behavior of the Dedekind zeta-function at s = 0. We will also discuss how this might be extended to other integral values.