- Series
- Athens-Atlanta Number Theory Seminar
- Time
- Monday, October 30, 2017 - 5:15pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Spencer Bloch – University of Chicago – http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~bloch/
- Organizer
- Joseph Rabinoff
Golyshev and Zagier found an interesting new source of periods associated to (eventually inhomogeneous) solutions generated by the Frobenius method for Picard Fuchs equations in the neighborhood of singular points with maximum unipotent monodromy. I will explain how this works, and how one can associate "motivic Gamma functions" and generalized Beilinson style variations of mixed Hodge structure to these solutions. This is joint work with M. Vlasenko.