Rational Points and Arithmetic of Fundamental Groups

Jakob Stix

ISBN 10: 364230673X / ISBN 13: 9783642306730

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Okt 2012, 2012

Beschreibung

Neuware -The section conjecture in anabelian geometry, announced by Grothendieck in 1983, is concerned with a description of the set of rational points of a hyperbolic algebraic curve over a number field in terms of the arithmetic of its fundamental group. While the conjecture is still open today in 2012, its study has revealed interesting arithmetic for curves and opened connections, for example, to the question whether the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only one against rational points on curves. This monograph begins by laying the foundations for the space of sections of the fundamental group extension of an algebraic variety. Then, arithmetic assumptions on the base field are imposed and the local-to-global approach is studied in detail. The monograph concludes by discussing analogues of the section conjecture created by varying the base field or the type of variety, or by using a characteristic quotient or its birational analogue in lieu of the fundamental group extension.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 272 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783642306730

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Rational Points and Arithmetic of Fundamental Groups
• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg Okt 2012
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 364230673X
• ISBN-13: 9783642306730
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 235B x 155 H x 15 T Millimeter Breite: 235 mm, Höhe: 155 mm, Tiefe: 15 mm
• Gewicht: 417 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The section conjecture in anabelian geometry, announced by Grothendieck in 1983, is concerned with a description of the set of rational points of a hyperbolic algebraic curve over a number field in terms of the arithmetic of its fundamental group. While the conjecture is still open today in 2012, its study has revealed interesting arithmetic for curves and opened connections, for example, to the question whether the Brauer-Manin obstruction is the only one against rational points on curves. This monograph begins by laying the foundations for the space of sections of the fundamental group extension of an algebraic variety. Then, arithmetic assumptions on the base field are imposed and the local-to-global approach is studied in detail. The monograph concludes by discussing analogues of the section conjecture created by varying the base field or the type of variety, or by using a characteristic quotient or its birational analogue in lieu of the fundamental group extension.