F-singularities and weak ordinarity

Series
Algebra Seminar
Time
Monday, October 20, 2014 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Karl Schwede – University of Utah – http://www.math.utah.edu/~schwede/
Organizer
Anton Leykin
I will discuss recent work of Bhargav Bhatt, myself and Shunsuke Takagi relating several open problems and generalizing work of Mustata and Srinivas. First: whether a smooth complex variety is ordinary after reduction to characteristic $p > 0$ for infinitely many $p$. Second: that multiplier ideals reduce to test ideals for infinitely many $p$ (regardless of coefficients). Finally, whether complex varieties with Du Bois singularities have $F$-injective singularities after reduction to infinitely many $p > 0$.