| Joint IAS-PU Number Theory Seminar | |
| Topic: | Heights, Discriminants and Conductors |
| Speaker: | Rafael von Kanel |
| Affiliation: | Member, School of Mathematics |
| Date: | Thursday, January 5 |
| Time/Room: | 4:30pm - 5:30pm/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