Algebraic Geometry Seminar
Organizers:
Caucher Birkar,Jia Jia 贾甲
Speaker:
Przemys?aw Grabowski
University of Amsterdam
Time:
Fri., 15:30-16:30, May. 9, 2025
Venue:
B725, Shuangqing Complex Building A
Online:
Zoom Meeting ID: 262 865 5007
Passcode: YMSC
Title
Power Towers: Foliations and Galois Theory in Positive Characteristic
The talk will discuss power towers. This is a new notion that I developed in my PhD thesis (2025). A power tower should be thought to be a foliation in positive characteristic. In particular, it is a simultaneous generalization of fibrations and purely inseparable morphisms. We will build a Galois theory for power towers. We will show how it connects to characteristic zero. Finally, we will apply the theory of power towers to obtain a formula for pullbacks of canonical divisors with respect to arbitrary purely inseparable morphism, then we derive some simple new theorems about unirationality modulo p from this formula.