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Summary
Motivic integration, tropical geometry and rationality of algebraic varieties
Syllabus
- Semialgebraic geometry over the field of Puiseux series
- The motivic volume of Hrushovski-Kazhdan
- Tropical degenerations
- Applications to rationality of algebraic varieties
Prerequisites:
A basic knowledge of scheme theory; important concepts will be recalled.
Schedule:
Mondays, 2:15pm - 3:45pm, 17 October - 12 December, MI 00.07.014 ;
Thursdays, 10:15am - 11:45am, 20 October - 10 November, MI 03.10.011.
Lecture notes:
These are lecture notes for the course, which will be updated as the course progresses. Please report any typos or mistakes to j.nicaise@imperial.ac.uk.
Official page at TU Munich: https://www.math.cit.tum.de/algebra/nicaise/