o-minimal GAGA Seminar

Rahim Moosa, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

"Introduction"

This term some of us will be working through sections 2 and 3 (and  maybe 4?) of a recent paper of Bakker-Brunebarbe-Tsimerman in which a definable version of Serre's GAGA is developed (and then applied to solve an old problem of Griffiths). It is a kind of compromise between algebraic geometry and local complex analytic geometry facilitated by model theory (it seems to involve very little of the last).

In this first meeting I will introduce the notions of "structure" and "o-minimality" on the reals, as background preparation for starting to read the paper.

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