Erwin Schrödinger Lecture: Ngô Bảo Châu (U Chicago): Weierstrass preparation theorem and singularities in arc spaces

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Abstract: Arc spaces have drawn considerable attention with the rise of the theory of motivic integration. In representation theory and harmonic analysis of/on groups defined over nonarchimedean local fields, arc spaces, and their singularities, also play a prominent role. The problem of understanding singularities of arc spaces becomes thus important both in motivic integration and geometric representation theory. 


After earlier  work of Grinberg and Kazhdan, Drinfeld gave a very convenient description of the formal completion of arc spaces with the help of a version of the Weierstrass preparation theorem with coefficients in Artin local rings. To go beyond the formal completion, we need a version of Weierstrass preparation theorem with arbitrary coefficients. I will describe the problems that arise in extending the Weiertrass preparation theorem to arbitrary coefficient rings and applications to understanding local structures of arc spaces.

Ngô Bảo Châu [ŋo ɓa᷉ːʊ̯ cəʊ̯] was born in Hanoi in 1972. He trained at École normale supérieure Paris and received his PhD at Orsay under the supervision of Gérard Laumon in 1997. In 2010, Professor Ngô was awarded a Fields Medal for “… his proof of the Fundamental Lemma in the theory of automorphic forms through the introduction of new algebro-geometric methods”. He has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 2010. 


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Type:
Lecture
When:
March 16, 2018