Speaker: 

Daniel Kane

Institution: 

UCSD

Time: 

Saturday, October 18, 2014 - 2:30pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

NS2 1201

The ABC Conjecture, roughly stated says that the equation A+B+C=0 has no solutions for relatively prime, highly divisible integers A, B, and C. If the divisibility criteria are relaxed, then solutions exist and a conjecture of Mazur predicts the density of such solutions. We discuss techniques for proving this conjecture for certain ranges of parameters.