Mathematical Sciences Seminar - How to make a (complex) doughnut real(ly) nice
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Complex surfaces have enjoyed applications in numerous areas of mathematics and physics. Consequently finding examples that are easy to work with is more important than ever. One construction that has proved to be extremely fruitful in recent years is the class of "Beauville surfaces" that are particularly nice since most of their properties are dictated by finite groups.
One question that is often asked of complex surfaces is when are they "real" ie when can some natural analogue of complex conjugation be defined on it? We will discuss this problem in the context of Beauville surfaces.
The keen reader may like to know that much of this talk is based on
http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3500 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5050
The particularly sadistic reader may also wish to consult arXiv:1102.4552v1, arXiv:1102.3055v1, arXiv:1009.6183v2, arXiv:1005.2316v1, arXiv:1003.2792v1, arXiv:0910.5489v2, arXiv:0910.5402v2, and http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/nathan.barker/pgroups7.pdf
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Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics