Home /  Workshop /  Schedules /  Some New Elliptic Integrals

Some New Elliptic Integrals

Degeneracy of Algebraic Points April 24, 2023 - April 28, 2023

April 27, 2023 (02:00 PM PDT - 03:00 PM PDT)
Speaker(s): David Masser (Universität Basel)
Location: SLMath: Eisenbud Auditorium, Online/Virtual
Video
No Video Uploaded
Abstract

In 1981 James Davenport surmised that if an algebraic function $f(x,t)$ is not integrable (with respect to $x$) by elementary means when $t$ is an independent variable, then there are most finitely many complex numbers $\tau$ such that $f(x,\tau)$ is integrable by elementary means. In 2020 Umberto Zannier and I obtained a couple of counterexamples and in broad principle classified all of them with algebraic coefficients (they are necessarily somewhat rare). In this talk I will review our work, sketch our recent discovery of yet more counterexamples (they are not unrelated to Ribet curves), and give a more precise description of all elliptic counterexamples.

Supplements No Notes/Supplements Uploaded
Video/Audio Files
No Video Files Uploaded