Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Periods, motivic gamma functions, and Hodge structures

 

Spencer Bloch

University of Chicago
 
 

Harvard University

Thursday, November 16, 2017


 

Talk at 4:30 p.m. in Science Center A

Tea at 4:00 p.m. in the Math Lounge


 
 

Abstract: Golyshev and Zagier showed how, using the Frobenius method to generate inhomogeneous solutions to Picard Fuchs equations near points of maximal unipotent monodromy for certain familys of K3 surfaces, one could generate what seemed to be infinite sequences of periods. In joint work with M. Vlasenko, we study motivic gamma functions and extensions of Hodge structure associated to the Golyshev-Zagier construction.


 

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