Collision of orbits under the action of a Drinfeld module
Speaker: Dragos Ghioca
Date: Thu, Feb 1, 2024
Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia, Zoom, Online
Conference: UBC Number Theory Seminar
Subject: Mathematics, Number Theory
Class: Scientific
Date: Thu, Feb 1, 2024
Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia, Zoom, Online
Conference: UBC Number Theory Seminar
Subject: Mathematics, Number Theory
Class: Scientific
Abstract:
We present various results and conjectures regarding unlikely intersections of orbits for families of Drinfeld modules. Our questions are motivated by the groundbreaking result of Masser and Zannier (from 15 years ago) regarding torsion points in algebraic families of elliptic curves.
