Lecture----数学院晨兴数学中心

Title:	Power operations in elliptic cohomology and semistable models for modular curves
Speaker:	Dr. Yifei Zhu (Southern University of Science and Technology)
Time:	2018-11-23, 10:00-10:50
Place:	N820
Abstract:	An elliptic cohomology is a generalized cohomology theory which encodes the group structure of an elliptic curve into its characteristic classes. This notion was inspired by the Witten genus for string manifolds which takes values in the ring of integral modular forms of level 1. In this talk, I will discuss an aspect of the theory that ties its cohomology operations to arithmetic moduli of elliptic curves in a precise way. In particular, I’ll present an integral model for the modular curve X_0(p) over the ring of integers of a sufficiently ramified extension of Z_p whose special fiber is a semistable curve in the sense that its only singularities are normal crossings. This leads to an explicit algebra of power operations for the elliptic cohomology, which has applications to unstable chromatic homotopy theory, and which further packages into certain Hecke operators, with connections to quasimodular forms and refinements of the Witten genus. For the full abstract, see attachment.
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