Speaker
Chandan Dalawat (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad)
Date & Time
Wed, 05 December 2018, 11:30 to 12:30
Venue
Emmy Noether Seminar Room, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Resources
Abstract
We will recall the definition of the field of p-adic numbers (for primes p) and explain the basic ideas of ramification theory through example. The goal is to classify finite extensions of these fields. Only a modest amount of algebraic background will be assumed.