Stefano Marseglia: The theory of Witt vectors
Tid: Fr 2016-11-25 kl 13.15 - 14.15
Plats: Room 306, House 6, Kräftriket, SU
Medverkande: Stefano Marseglia, SU
Witt vectors generalize (in a functorial way) the construction of the p-adic numbers Z_p. Therefore it is not surprising that even if most of their properties have elementary proofs they are a very powerful tool. In the talk, we will review their construction and give some applications.