- Series
- Student Algebraic Geometry Seminar
- Time
- Friday, April 12, 2019 - 12:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Stephen McKean – Georgia Tech – mckean@math.gatech.edu – https://people.math.gatech.edu/~smckean3/
- Organizer
- Stephen McKean
Milnor K-theory is a field invariant that originated as an attempt to study algebraic K-theory. Instead, Milnor K-theory has proved to have many other applications, including Galois cohomology computations, Voevodsky's proof of the Bloch-Kato conjecture, and Kato's higher class field theory. In this talk, we will go over the basic definitions and theorems of Milnor K-theory. We will also discuss some of these applications.