Joint IAS-PU Number Theory Seminar

Heights, Discriminants and Conductors
Rafael von Kanel
Member, School of Mathematics
Date & Time: 
Thu, 01/05/2012 - 16:30 - 17:30
Location: 
S-101

In this talk we consider the problem of giving explicit inequalities which relate heights, discriminants and conductors of a curve defined over a number field. We present such inequalities for some curves, including all curves of genus one or two and we discuss Diophantine applications