- Series
- Athens-Atlanta Number Theory Seminar
- Time
- Monday, October 30, 2017 - 4:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Bjorn Poonen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – https://math.mit.edu/~poonen/
- Organizer
- Joseph Rabinoff
The function field case of the strong uniform boundedness conjecturefor torsion points on elliptic curves reduces to showing thatclassical modular curves have gonality tending to infinity.We prove an analogue for periodic points of polynomials under iterationby studying the geometry of analogous curves called dynatomic curves.This is joint work with John R. Doyle.