STAGE Seminar
Tuesday, December 06, 2022 at 11:00am to 12:30pm
MIT , 2-449 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Speaker: Niven Achenjang (MIT)
Title: The descent obstruction
Topics: Evaluation of torsors; Selmer set; weak Mordell-Weil theorem; descent obstruction.
Reference: Poonen, Rational points on varieties, Sections 8.4.1-8.4.5 and 8.4.7.
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