Speaker: 

Majid Hadian

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Host: 

Location: 

RH 340P

By studying the variation of motivic path torsors associated to a variety, we show how certain non-density assertions in Diophantine geometry can be reduced to problems concerning K-groups. Concrete results then follow based on known (and conjectural) vanishing theorems.