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189-727A: Deformation Theory and Iwasawa Theory
Professor: Ravi Ramakrishna
TA: Henri Darmon
Classes: MW 10:30- 12:30.
Room: BH 1120.
Outline:
The seminar will be devoted to a study of the following two articles, with a
special emphasis on the interrelations between them and on the use of
``special primes" to control the behaviour of deformation rings.
1.
Ravi Ramakrishna, Deforming Galois representations and the conjectures
of Serre and Fontaine-Mazur, Annals of mathematics, to appear.
(dvi,
ps)
Supplementary reference:
Richard Taylor, On icosahedral Artin representations II,
American Journal of Mathematics, to appear.
(dvi,
ps)
2.
Massimo Bertolini and Henri Darmon,
Iwasawa's Main Conjecture
for Elliptic Curves over Anticyclotomic Zp--extensions.
(dvi,
ps)
Course Schedule: