Speaker: 

Dori Bejleri

Institution: 

Harvard/Maryland

Time: 

Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 1:00pm to 1:50pm

Location: 

RH 340N

A theory of heights of rational points on stacks was recently introduced by Ellenberg, Satriano and Zureick-Brown as a tool to unify and generalize various results and conjectures about arithmetic counting problems over global fields. In this talk I will present a moduli theoretic approach to heights on stacks over function fields inspired by twisted stable maps of Abramovich and Vistoli. For some well-behaved class of stacks, we obtain moduli spaces of points of fixed height whose geometry controls the number of rational points on the stack. I will outline an approach for more general stacks which is closely related to the geometry of the moduli space of vector bundles on a curve. This is based on joint work with Park and Satriano.