Comparing multiplier ideals to test ideals on numerically Q-Gorenstein varieties

Seminar: 
Algebraic and Tropical Geometry
Event time: 
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location: 
431 DL
Speaker: 
Kevin Tucker
Speaker affiliation: 
University of Illinois at Chicago
Event description: 

In this talk, I will focus on the connection between two important measures of singularities: multiplier ideals in characteristic zero and test ideals in positive characteristic. While their relationship is well understood in many cases (e.g. hypersurface or finite quotient singularities), it remains conjectural for non-Q-Gorenstein varieties. I will discuss positive recent progress on this conjecture for so-called numerically Q-Gorenstein varieties (which include all normal surface singularities). This is joint work with T. de Fernex, R. Do Campo, and S. Takagi