Abelian in/i-division fields of elliptic curves and Brauer groups of product Kummer surfaces

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Tony Várilly-Alvarado
Speaker affiliation: 
Rice University
Event description: 

In this talk we will discuss uniform bounds for the size of the transcendental Brauer groups of certain one-parameter families of Kummer surfaces with fixed geometric Néron-Severi lattice. We will show, among other things, that over a number field of fixed degree and for a fixed prime $p$, the $p$-primary torsion of these Brauer groups is uniformly bounded. For $n$ odd, we will show how to relate the existence of an $n$-torsion transcendental element on these Kummer surfaces to the existence of certain abelian division fields for associated non-CM elliptic curves. This is joint work with Bianca Viray.