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Seminar on Geometric Complex Analysis
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| Date, time & place | Monday 10:30 - 12:00 128Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.) |
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| Organizer(s) | Kengo Hirachi, Shigeharu Takayama |
2014/07/14
10:30-12:00 Room #126 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Gopal Prasad (University of Michigan)
Higher dimensional analogues of fake projective planes (ENGLISH)
Gopal Prasad (University of Michigan)
Higher dimensional analogues of fake projective planes (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
A fake projective plane is a smooth projective complex algebraic surface which is not isomorphic to the complex projective plane but whose Betti numbers are that of the complex projective plane. The fake projective planes are algebraic surfaces of general type and have smallest possible Euler-Poincare characteristic among them. The first fake projective plane was constructed by D. Mumford using p-adic uniformization, and it was known that there can only be finitely many of them. A complete classification of the fake projective planes was obtained by Sai-Kee Yeung and myself. We showed that there are 28 classes of them, and constructed at least one explicit example in each class. Later, using long computer assisted computations, D. Cartwright and Tim Steger found that the 28 families altogether contain precisely 100 fake projective planes. Using our work, they also found a very interesting smooth projective complex algebraic surface whose Euler-Poincare characteristic is 3 but whose first Betti
number is 2. We have a natural notion of higher dimensional analogues of fake projective planes and to a large extent determined them. My talk will be devoted to an exposition of this work.
A fake projective plane is a smooth projective complex algebraic surface which is not isomorphic to the complex projective plane but whose Betti numbers are that of the complex projective plane. The fake projective planes are algebraic surfaces of general type and have smallest possible Euler-Poincare characteristic among them. The first fake projective plane was constructed by D. Mumford using p-adic uniformization, and it was known that there can only be finitely many of them. A complete classification of the fake projective planes was obtained by Sai-Kee Yeung and myself. We showed that there are 28 classes of them, and constructed at least one explicit example in each class. Later, using long computer assisted computations, D. Cartwright and Tim Steger found that the 28 families altogether contain precisely 100 fake projective planes. Using our work, they also found a very interesting smooth projective complex algebraic surface whose Euler-Poincare characteristic is 3 but whose first Betti
number is 2. We have a natural notion of higher dimensional analogues of fake projective planes and to a large extent determined them. My talk will be devoted to an exposition of this work.
