Baker-DeMarco Learning Seminar

Yoav Len, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo

"Berkovich spaces"

Berkovich analytic spaces are a slick way for "filling the holes" in varieties defined over non-Archimedean fields. In the talk, I will introduce the analytification construction, and make the previous sentence more precise. I will explicitly construct the Berkovich line, and explain how to find the analytification of curves of higher genus. The talk will mostly be informal, and focus on results and constructions rather than precise proofs.

MC 5403