Tag Archives: Shiva Chidambaram

Chidambaram on Galois representations (not) associated to abelian varieties over Q

Today’s post is about a new paper by my student Shiva. Suppose that \(A/\mathbf{Q}\) is a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension \(g\) and \(p\) is a prime. The Galois representation on the \(p\)-torsion points \(A[p]\) gives rise to a … Continue reading

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Tips on becoming a computational number theorist

How would you advise a student who has talents in both the computational and theoretical aspects of algebraic number theory? There is no hard border between computational and theoretical algebraic number theory, but there is a definite computational number theory … Continue reading

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Picard Groups of Moduli Stacks

Here are some algebraic geometry musings related to the last post, most of which is hopefully correct. Everything below is secretly over \(\mathbf{Z}[1/6]\) but I think one may as well think about what is happening over \(\mathbf{C}\). Warning: I don’t … Continue reading

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Chidambaram on genus two curves, II

We now continue a series of posts on the work of my student Shiva Chidambaram. (Click here for part I.) Today I would like to discuss another project with Shiva that was also joint with David Roberts (no, not David … Continue reading

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Chidambaram on genus two curves, I

Before we start, just to alert you to a minor blogpage design change: all the posts (including this one) which talk about my students work can be accessed in one place by clicking the “work of my students” tab just … Continue reading

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Mazur’s Program B on Abelian Surfaces

In the book “More mathematical people,” there is an interview with Robin Wilson with the following quote: At the meal I found myself sitting next to Alistair Cooke who was very charming, and absolutely fascinating to listen to. The very … Continue reading

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