R.V. Gurjar

Description
Geometry and Topology seminar

9th November, 4:00 PM
Room 215
Title. Shafarevich question on the universal covering of a smooth
projective variety, and it's applications.

Speaker. R.V. Gurjar

Abstract. I. Shafarevich has raised the following very general question.

'Is the universal covering space of every smooth connected projective
variety holomorphically convex ?'

This is a generalization of the famous Uniformization Theorem for Riemann
Surfaces. We will discuss some applications of a positive solution of the
Sharafevich question, viz. A conjecture of Madhav Nori is true, and the
second homotopy group of a connected smooth projective surface is a free
abelian group.

We will also mention positive solutions for the Shafarevich question in
several interesting cases.
Description
Room 215, Department of Mathematics
Date
Fri, November 9, 2018
Start Time
4:00pm IST
Priority
5-Medium
Access
Public
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Updated
Mon, November 5, 2018 9:57am IST