Events

Amanda Maria Petcu, University of Waterloo

Some results on hypersymplectic structures

A conjecture of Simon Donaldson is that on a compact 4-manifold X^4 one can flow from a hypersymplecticstructure to a hyperkahler structure while remaining in the same cohomology class. To this end thehypersymplectic flow was introduced by Fine-Yao. In this thesis the notion of a positive triple on X^4 is used todefine a hypersymplectic and hyperkahler structure. Given a closed positive triple one can define either a closedG2 structure or a coclosed G2 structure on T^3 x X^4. The coclosed G2 structure is evolved under the G2Laplacian coflow. This descends to a flow of the positive triple on X^4, which is again the Fine-Yaohypersymplectic flow. In the second part of this thesis we let X^4 = R^4 \ {0} with a particular cohomogeneityone action. A hypersymplectic structure invariant under this action is introduced. The Riemann and Riccicurvature tensors are computed and we verify in a particular case that this hypersymplectic structure can betransformed to a hyperkahler structure. The notion of a soliton for the hypersymplectic flow in this particularcase is introduced and it is found that steady solitons give rise to hypersymplectic structures that can betransformed to hyperkahler structures. Some other soliton solutions are also discussed.

MC 5479

Damaris Schindler, University of Göttingen

Density of rational points near manifolds

Given a bounded submanifold M in R^n, how many rational points with common bounded denominator are there in a small thickening of M? How does this counting function behave if we let the size of the denominator go to infinity? The study of the density of rational points near manifolds has seen significant progress in the last couple of years. In this talk I will explain why we might be interested in this question, focusing on applications in Diophantine approximation and the (quantitative) arithmetic of projective varieties.

MC 5403

Damaris Schindler, University of Göttingen

Quantitative weak approximation and quantitative strong approximation for certain quadratic forms

In this talk we discuss recent results on optimal quantitative weak approximation for certain projective quadrics over the rational numbers as well as quantitative results on strong approximation for quaternary quadratic forms over the integers. We will also discuss results on the growth of integral points on the three-dimensional punctured affine cone and strong approximation with Brauer-Manin obstruction for this quasi-affine variety. This is joint work with Zhizhong Huang and Alec Shute.

MC 5479