Tag Archives: Noam Elkies

Polymath Proposal: 4-folds of Mumford’s type

Let \(A/K\) be an abelian variety of dimension \(g\) over a number field. If \(g \not\equiv 0 \bmod 4\) and \(\mathrm{End}(A/\mathbf{C}) = \mathbf{Z}\), then Serre proved that the Galois representations associated to \(A\) have open image in \(\mathrm{GSp}_{2g}(\mathbf{Z}_p)\). The result … Continue reading

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More on Lehmer’s Conjecture

Lehmer said it was a “natural question” whether there existed an integer such that \(\tau(n)=0\) or not. I’ve wondered a little bit recently about how reasonable this is. (See this post.) The historical context is presumably related to the fact … Continue reading

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Winning the Chocolate

Once a month, there is an (unrated) round robin blitz tournament at the Evanston chess club. The time controls are set on five minutes (a little slow for me, I usually play one minute games online), but it’s nice to … Continue reading

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