Event time:
Monday, November 4, 2013 - 11:15am to 12:15pm
Location:
LOM 200
Speaker:
Andrei Rapinchuk
Speaker affiliation:
University of Virginia (visiting Yale)
Event description:
I will discuss some results and conjectures suggesting that the eigenvalues
of elements of a finitely generated Zariski-dense subgroup of a simple algebraic group over a field of characteristic zero should determine the corresponding form of the ambient group over the trace field up to finitely many possibilities (and sometimes even uniquely).