Number Theory Seminar

Owen Patashnick, King's College London

Motive-ating formal periods via special values of L-functions

In this talk we will use special values of L-functions as a gateway drug to explore the motivic periods that underlie geometric content associated to these L-values. In particular, we will "motivate" an explicit construction of classes built out of algebraic cycles associated with the L-values L(Sym^n(E), n+m) and muse on the consequences. We will try to make the talk as accessible as possible, and hopefully keep discussion of machinery to a minimum.

MC 5479