he Intersection of Two Fermat Hypersurfaces in P^3 via Computation of Quotient Curves

Speaker: Vijay Singh (Sch. Math. Sci, UCD)

Time: 4:00PM

Date: Mon 9th November 2009

Location: Mathematical Sciences Seminar Room

Abstract
We study the complete intersection of two particular Fermat hypersurfaces in P3 over a finite field. Using the Kani-Rosen decomposition we study arithmetic properties of this curve in terms of its quotients.

(This talk is part of the Algebra/Claude Shannon Institute series.)