Number Theory Seminar

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Date, time & place Wednesday 17:00 - 18:00 117Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Organizer(s) Naoki Imai, Shane Kelly

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2025/05/21

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Toni Annala (University of Chicago)
A¹-Colocalization and Logarithmic Cohomology Theories
[ Abstract ]
In recent joint work with Hoyois and Iwasa, we discovered that non-A¹-invariant motivic homotopy theory offers a new lens for understanding logarithmic cohomology theories. Central to this perspective is A¹-colocalization, which produces a cohomology theory whose value on a smooth scheme U agrees with the "logarithmic cohomology" of a good compactification (X,D). In many examples, including de Rham and crystalline cohomology, the quotation marks can be dropped, as A¹-colocalization recovers the classical logarithmic cohomology groups. I will explain this connection and, time permitting, sketch a proof of the duality theorem underlying this phenomenon, which states that smooth projective schemes have a dualizable motive.
[ Reference URL ]
https://tannala.com/

2025/05/14

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Eamon Quinlan (University of Utah)
Introduction to the Bernstein-Sato polynomial in positive characteristic
[ Abstract ]
The Bernstein-Sato polynomial of a holomorphic function is an invariant that originated in complex analysis, and with now strong applications to birational geometry and singularity theory over the complex numbers. For example, it detects the log-canonical threshold as well as the eigenvalues of the monodromy action on nearby cycles. In this talk I will define a characteristic-p analogue of this invariant, I will survey some of its basic properties, and I will illustrate how its behavior reflects arithmetic phenomena. This will serve as an introduction to the talk by Hiroki Kato.
[ Reference URL ]
https://eamonqg.github.io/

2025/05/14

18:10-19:10   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Hiroki Kato (IHES)
Bernstein--Sato theory in positive characteristic and unit root nearby cycles.
[ Abstract ]
I will talk about how to formulate (and outline an idea of a proof of) a positive characteristic analogue of the theorem of Kashiwara and Malgrange about the relationship, in characteristic zero, between the Bernstein-Sato polynomial and the eigenvalues of the monodromy action on nearby cycles. It will/is expected to give a cohomological explanation for some of the arithmetic phenomena that will be presented in the talk by Eamon Quinlan. This is a joint work in progress with him and Daichi Takeuchi.

2025/05/07

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Eric Chen (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
Hanany–Witten transition and Rankin–Selberg periods
[ Abstract ]
Given a manifold decorated with defects separating the bulk into regions with varying gauge theories, it is often convenient to first simplify the topological picture into model configurations. One of the simplest examples of such operations are the transition moves introduced by Hanany and Witten, which describes the crossing of an NS5 and a D5 brane. In this talk, we will describe how these ideas lead to identities between Rankin—Selberg type integrals over moduli spaces of bundles, and consequences of S-duality, or relative Langlands duality, in this setup.
[ Reference URL ]
https://sites.google.com/view/eric-yen-yo-chen-math/homepage

2025/04/23

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Dat Pham (C.N.R.S., IMJ-PRG, Sorbonne Université)
Prismatic F-crystals and "Lubin--Tate" crystalline Galois representations.
[ Abstract ]
An important question in integral p-adic Hodge theory is the study of lattices in crystalline Galois representations. There have been various classifications of such objects, such as Fontaine--Lafaille’s theory, Breuil’s theory of strongly divisible lattices, and Kisin’s theory of Breuil--Kisin modules. Using their prismatic theory, Bhatt--Scholze give a site-theoretic description of such lattices, which has the nice feature that it can specialize to many of the previous classifications by "evaluating" suitably. In this talk, we will recall their result and explain an extension to the Lubin--Tate context.
[ Reference URL ]
https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~dat.pham/

2024/12/11

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Ryosuke Ooe (University of Tokyo)
The characteristic cycle of an l-adic sheaf on a smooth variety (Japanese)
[ Abstract ]
The characteristic cycle of an l-adic sheaf on a smooth variety over a perfect field is defined by Saito as a cycle on the cotangent bundle and the intersection with the zero section computes the Euler number. On the other hand, the characteristic cycle of an l-adic sheaf on a regular scheme in mixed characteristic is not yet defined. In this talk, I define the F-characteristic cycle of a rank one sheaf on an arithmetic surface whose intersection with the zero section computes the Swan conductor of the cohomology of the generic fiber. The definition is based on the computation of the characteristic cycle in equal characteristic by Yatagawa. I explain the rationality and the integrality of the characteristic form of an abelian character, which are necessary for the definition of the F-characteristic cycle.

2024/12/04

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Kieu Hieu Nguyen (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
On categorical local Langlands for GLn (English)
[ Abstract ]
Recently, Fargues-Scholze and many other people realized that there should be a categorical version which encodes great information of the local Langlands correspondence. In this talk, I will describe the objects appearing in their conjectures and explain some relations with the local Langlands correspondences for GLn.

2024/11/27

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Kaito Masuzawa (University of Tokyo)
On the correspondence of simple supercuspidal representations of $\mathrm{GSp}_{2n}$ and its inner form (Japanese)
[ Abstract ]
Let $F$ be a nonarchimedean local field. The local Jacquet-Langlands correspondence is the one-to-one correspondence of essential square integrable representations of $\mathrm{GL}_n(F)$ and its inner form. It is known that this correspondence satisfies the character relation and preserves the simple supercuspidality. We assume the correspondence of simple supercuspidal representations of $\mathrm{GSp}_{2n}(F)$ and irreducible admissible representations of its inner form which satisfies the character relation. This is expected to exist by a standard argument using the theory of stable trace formula. In this talk, we show the simple supercuspidality is preserved under this correspondence. In addition, we can parametrize simple supercuspidal representations and describe the correspondence explicitly.

2024/11/06

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Piotr Pstrągowski (Kyoto University)
The even filtration and prismatic cohomology (English)
[ Abstract ]
The even filtration, introduced by Hahn-Raksit-Wilson, is a canonical filtration attached to a commutative ring spectrum which measures its failure to be even. Despite its simple definition, the even filtration recovers many arithmetically important constructions, such as the Adams-Novikov filtration of the sphere or the Bhatt-Morrow-Scholze filtration on topological Hochschild homology, showing that they are all invariants of the commutative ring spectrum alone. I will describe a linear variant of the even filtration which is naturally defined on associative rings as well as joint work with Raksit on the resulting extension of prismatic cohomology to the context of E_2-rings.

2024/10/30

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Masaya Sato (University of Tokyo)
Representability of Hochschild homology in the category of motives with modulus (日本語)
[ Abstract ]
There is a map from algebraic K-theory to Hochschild homology, called a trace map. This map developed the study of algebraic K-theory. Algebraic K-theory is A^1-invariant on the category of smooth schemes over a field, so the Voevodsky’s motivic homotopy theory is a nice way to study algebraic K-theory. However, Hochschild homology is not A^1-invariant, so Voevodsky’s theory doesn’t capture it. In this talk, we will extend Hochschild homology of schemes to modulus pairs, and it is representable in the category of motives with modulus defined by Kahn-Miyazaki-Saito-Yamazaki.

2024/10/16

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Pierre Colmez (Sorbonne University)
On the factorisation of Beilinson-Kato system (English)
[ Abstract ]
I will explain how one can factor Beilinson-Kato system as a product of two modular symbols, an algebraic incarnation of Rankin's method. This is joint work with Shanwen Wang.

2024/10/02

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Hui Gao (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Filtered integral Sen theory (English)
[ Abstract ]
Using the Breuil--Kisin module attached to an integral crystalline representation, one can define an integral Hodge filtration whose behavior is closely related to arithmetic and geometry of the representation. In this talk, we discuss vanishing and torsion bound on graded pieces of this filtration, using a filtered integral Sen theory as key tool. This is joint work with Tong Liu.

2024/09/18

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Ishan Levy (University of Copenhagen)
Telescopic stable homotopy theory (English)
[ Abstract ]
Chromatic homotopy theory attempts to study the stable homotopy category by breaking it into v_n-periodic layers corresponding to height n formal groups. There are two natural ways to do this, via either the K(n)-localizations which are computationally accessible, or via the T(n)-localizations, which detect the v_n-periodic parts of the stable homotopy groups of spheres. Ravenel's telescope conjecture asks that these two localizations agree. For n at least 2 and all primes, I will discuss counterexamples to Ravenel’s telescope conjecture. Our counterexamples come from using trace methods to compute the T(n) and K(n)-localizations of the algebraic K-theory of a family of ring spectra, which in the case n=2 are certain finite Galois extensions of the K(1)-local sphere. I will then explain that this can be used to obtain an infinite family of elements in the v_n-periodic stable homotopy groups of spheres, giving the best known lower bound on the asymptotic average ranks of the stable stems. Finally, I will explain that the Galois group of the T(n)-local category agrees with that of the K(n)-local category, and how the failure of the telescope conjecture comes entirely from the failure of Galois hyperdescent. This talk comes from projects that are joint with Burklund, Carmeli, Clausen, Hahn, Schlank, and Yanovski.

2024/07/10

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Chieh-Yu Chang (National Tsing Hua University)
On special v-adic gamma values after Gross-Koblitz-Thakur (英語)
[ Abstract ]
In this talk, we will introduce special v-adic arithmetic gamma values in positive characteristic, which play the function field analogue of the special values of Morita’s p-adic gamma function. In the function field case, Thakur established a formula à la Gross-Koblitz, and hence obtained algebraicity of certain special v-adic arithmetic gamma values. In a joint work with Fu-Tsun Wei and Jing Yu, we prove that all algebraic relations among these special v-adic gamma values are coming from the three types of functional equations that the v-adic arithmetic gamma function satisfies, and Thakur’s analogue of Gross-Koblitz’s formula.

2024/06/19

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Abhinandan (University of Tokyo)
Prismatic $F$-crystals and Wach modules (English)
[ Abstract ]
For an absolutely unramified extension $K/\mathbb{Q}_p$ with perfect residue field, by the works of Fontaine, Colmez, Wach and Berger, it is well known that the category of Wach modules over a certain integral period ring is equivalent to the category of lattices inside crystalline representations of $G_K$ (the absolute Galois group of $K$). Moreover, by the recent works of Bhatt and Scholze, we also know that lattices inside crystalline representations of $G_K$ are equivalent to the category of prismatic $F$-crystals on the absolute prismatic site of $O_K$, the ring of integers of $K$. The goal of this talk is to present a direct construction of the categorical equivalence between Wach modules and prismatic $F$-crystals over the absolute prismatic site of $O_K$. If time permits, we will also mention a generalisation of these results to the case of a "small" base ring.

2024/05/22

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Takumi Watanabe (University of Tokyo)
On the (φ,Γ)-modules corresponding to crystalline representations and semi-stable representations
[ Abstract ]
From the 1980s to the 1990s, J.-M. Fontaine constructed an equivalence of categories between the category of (φ, Γ)-modules and the category of p-adic Galois representations. After recalling it, I will present my result on the (φ, Γ)-modules corresponding to crystalline representations and semi-stable representations. As for the crystalline case, this can be seen, in a sense, as a generalization of Wach module in the ramified case. If time permits, I will explain my ongoing research on the (φ, Γ)-modules corresponding to de Rham representations.

2024/05/15

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yuta Takaya (University of Tokyo)
Equidimensionality of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties in mixed characteristic (日本語)
[ Abstract ]
Shimura varieties are of central interest in arithmetic geometry and affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties are closely related to their special fibers. These varieties are group-theoretical objects and can be defined even for non-miniscule local Shimura data. In this talk, I will explain the proof of the equidimensionality of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties in mixed characteristic.
The main ingredient is a local foliation of affine Deligne-Lusztig varieties in mixed characteristic. In equal characteristic, this local structure was previously introduced by Hartl and Viehmann.

2024/05/08

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Xinyao Zhang (University of Tokyo)
The pro-modularity in the residually reducible case (English)
[ Abstract ]
For a continuous odd two dimensional Galois representation over a finite field of characteristic p, it is conjectured that its universal deformation ring is isomorphic to some p-adic big Hecke algebra, called the big R=T theorem. Recently, Deo explored the residually reducible case and proved a big R=T theorem for Q under the assumption of the cyclicity of some cohomology group. However, his method is unavailable for totally real fields since the assumption does not hold any longer. In this talk, we follow the strategy of the work from Skinner-Wiles and Pan on the Fontaine-Mazur conjecture and give a pro-modularity result for some totally real fields, which is an analogue to the big R=T theorem.

2024/05/01

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Kojiro Matsumoto (University of Tokyo)
On the potential automorphy and the local-global compatibility for the monodromy operators at p ≠ l over CM fields. (日本語)
[ Abstract ]
Let F be a totally real field or CM field, n be a positive integer, l be a prime, π be a cohomological cuspidal automorphic representation of GLn over F and v be a non-l-adic finite place of F. In 2014, Harris-Lan-Taylor-Thorne constructed the l-adic Galois representation corresponding to π. (Scholze also constructed this by another method.) The compatibility of this construction and the local Langlands correspondence at v was proved up to semisimplification by Ila Varma(2014), but the compatibility for the monodromy operators was known only in conjugate self-dual cases and some special 2-dimensional cases. In this talk, we will prove the local-global compatibility in some self-dual cases and sufficiently regular weight cases by using some new potential automorphy theorems. Moreover, if we have time, we will also prove the Ramanujan conjecture for the cohomological cuspidal automorphic representations of GL2 over F, which was proved in parallel weight cases by Boxer-Calegari-Gee-Newton-Thorne (2023).

2024/04/17

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Ahmed Abbes (Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, University of Tokyo)
Functoriality of the p-adic Simpson correspondence by proper push forward (English)
[ Abstract ]
Faltings initiated in 2005 a p-adic analogue of the (complex) Simpson correspondence whose construction has been taken up by various authors, according to several approaches. After recalling the one initiated by myself with Michel Gros, I will present our initial result on the functoriality of the p-adic Simpson correspondence by proper push forward, leading to a generalization of the relative Hodge-Tate spectral sequence. If time permits, I will give a brief overview of an ongoing project with Michel Gros and Takeshi Tsuji, aimed at establishing a more robust framework for achieving broader functoriality results of the p-adic Simpson correspondence, by both proper push forward and pullback.

2024/02/21

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Jens Niklas Eberhardt (University of Bonn)
K-motives and Local Langlands (English)
[ Abstract ]
In this talk, we construct a geometric realisation of the category of representations of the affine Hecke algebra. For this, we introduce a formalism of K-theoretic sheaves (called K-motives) on stacks. The affine Hecke algebra arises from the K-theory of the Steinberg stack, and we explain how to “category” using K-motives.
Lastly, we briefly discuss the relation to the local Langlands program.

2024/01/24

17:00-18:00   Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yong Suk Moon (BIMSA)
Purity for p-adic Galois representations (English)
[ Abstract ]
Given a smooth p-adic formal scheme, Tsuji proved a purity result for crystalline local systems on its generic fiber. In this talk, we will discuss a generalization for log-crystalline local systems on the generic fiber of a semistable p-adic formal scheme. This is based on a joint work with Du, Liu, and Shimizu.

2024/01/10

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Yuri Yatagawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Characteristic cycle and partially logarithmic characteristic cycle of a rank 1 sheaf (Japanese)

2023/12/20

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Jinhyun Park (KAIST)
Accessing the big de Rham-Witt complex via algebraic cycles with a vanishing condition (English)
[ Abstract ]
The big de Rham-Witt complexes of certain good rings over a field are known to admit certain motivic descriptions, namely via cycles with a modulus condition, e.g. additive higher Chow groups. This allowed us to define the trace maps on the de Rham-Witt forms in geometric terms, for instance.
Inspired by a lemma of Kato-Saito on the class field theory and Milnor K-groups, in this talk I would introduce a recent attempt in progress, where a version of “vanishing algebraic cycles” is defined over the formal power series k[[t]]. Using these cycles, I would sketch an alternative cycle-theoretic description of the big de Rham-Witt forms.

2023/11/22

17:00-18:00   Room #117 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Takao Yamazaki (Chuo University)
Torsion birational motives of surfaces and unramified cohomology (Japanese)

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