- Series
- Algebra Seminar
- Time
- Monday, March 8, 2010 - 2:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 171
- Speaker
- Mihran Papikian – Penn State
- Organizer
- Matt Baker
We discuss some arithmetic properties of modular varieties
of D-elliptic sheaves, such as the existence of rational points or
the structure of their "fundamental domains" in the Bruhat-Tits
building. The notion of D-elliptic sheaf is a generalization of the
notion of Drinfeld module. D-elliptic sheaves and their moduli
schemes were introduced by Laumon, Rapoport and Stuhler in their
proof of certain cases of the Langlands conjecture over function
fields.