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.