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Fakultät für Mathematik Universität Regensburg
Seminar on Potential Theory on the Berkovich Projective Line
Semester
SoSe 2018

Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Klaus Kuennemann

Type of course (Veranstaltungsart)
Seminar

Contents
The Berkovich projective line is the easiest non-trivial example of a non-archimedean analytic space
in the sense of Berkovich. The aim of the seminar is to get a better understanding of this example
by developing the foundations to do analysis on the Berkovich projective line. The motivation is
more precisely to develop a non-archimedean analog of classical potential theory in the complex
plane. After recalling basic facts about the Berkovich projective line, we introduce the Hsia
kernel, the fundamental kernel for potential theory. We develop a theory of capacities, define a
Laplacian operator and harmonic functions, and develop the theory of subharmonic functions. Of
course we will only be able to cover a part of the book by Baker and Rumely.

Literature
M. Baker, R. Rumely: Potential Theory and Dynamics on the Berkovich Projective Line, Mathematical
Surveys and Monographs Volume: 159; AMS 2010. The ebook is with a university IP available at
http://www.ams.org/books/surv/159/surv159.pdf A preliminary version of this book is available at:
https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0407433

Recommended previous knowledge
The seminar aims at students of my courses on non-archimedean geometry. However the book by Baker
and Rumely is self-contained and can be read without previous knowledge about non-archimedean
analytic geometry.

Time/Date
Mon 14h15-15h45

Location
M103

Registration
  • Organisational meeting/distribution of topics: Organisational meeting/distribution of topics:
    Tuesday February 6th 2017 at 16h15h in room M102 or contact my assistant Martino Stoffel or me
    by email.
  • Registration for course work/examination/ECTS: FlexNow
Course work (Studienleistungen)
  • Presentation: Giving a seminar talk of roughly 90 minutes
Examination (Prüfungsleistungen)
  • Detailed written report of the seminar talk
Regelungen bei Studienbeginn vor WS 2015 / 16
  • Benotet:
    • O. g. Studienleistung und o. g. Prüfungsleistung; die Note ergibt sich aus der Prüfungsleistung
  • Unbenotet:
    • O. g. Studienleistung und Bestehen der o. g. Prüfungsleistung
Modules
BSem, MV, MSem, LA-GySem

ECTS
Siehe Modulkatalog. MV und Nebenfach: 4,5 LP bei Studienbeginn ab WS 15/16, 6 LP bei Studienbeginn
vor WS 15/16
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