Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar

Justin Laverdure, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Rational maps from reduced schemes"

I'll outline the definition of rational, dominant rational, and birational maps, and use these notions to outline the equivalence of the categories of finitely generated extensions of a field k and that of integral k-varieties. I'll also go over the classical example of rational points on the circle, in the light of rational maps.

MC 5413