Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
Quantum statistical mechanics and anabelian geometry

 

Matilde Marcolli

Caltech
 

Harvard University

Thursday, March 24, 2011


 

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

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


 
 

Abstract: I will review constructions of quantum statistical mechanical systems (from the original Bost-Connes system to generalizations to arbitrary number fields) that exhibit interesting arithmetic properties. Following ongoing work with Gunther Cornelissen, I will show how these quantum statistical mechanical systems can be used to reconstruct a number field from a family of L-series.


 

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