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Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups
Semester
SoSe 2021

Lecturer
Sebastian Wolf

Type of course (Veranstaltungsart)
Seminar

Contents
There are many formal analogies between the classical Galois theory of fields and the theory of
covering spaces in algebraic topology. In this seminar we will see that, in certain situations over
the complex numbers, this intuition can be turned into a theorem, using Riemann surfaces as a bridge
between the two worlds. As an application of this theory, we will compute the absolute Galois group
of the complex function field C(t). We will roughly follow the first three chapters of Szamuely's
book "Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups". No previous knowledge of covering spaces or
Riemann surfaces will be required, as we will introduce these notions during the seminar. If you are
already familiar with these, it will still be interesting for you to see how these notions interact
from a Galois-theoretic viewpoint.

Literature
Tamás Szamuely: Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups

Recommended previous knowledge
Algebra, Commutative Algebra, Complex Analysis

Time/Date
tba

Location
Digital

Course homepage
https://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~wos07573/SeminarGalois.html
(Disclaimer: Dieser Link wurde automatisch erzeugt und ist evtl. extern)

Registration
  • Organisational meeting/distribution of topics: Preliminary meeting on the 10th of February,
    13-14 st via Zoom. You can find the Zoom-link on the seminar home-page. If you cannot attend
    the preliminary meeting but would like to participate, just send an E-mail to sebastian1.wolf
    "at" mathematik.uni-r.de.
  • 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
Additional comments
We might switch to meeting in person if it becomes possible during the semester.

Modules
BSem, MV, MSem

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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