O-minimality and the Zilber-Pink conjecture for Shimura varieties
Speaker:
Christopher Daw, University of Reading
Date and Time:
Friday, June 23, 2017 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
In 2016, Habegger and Pila published a proof of the Zilber-Pink conjecture for curves in abelian varieties (when everything is defined over $\mathbb{Q}^{\rm alg}$). Their article also contained a proof of the same conjecture for a product of modular curves that was conditional on a strong arithmetic hypothesis. Both proofs were extensions of the Pila-Zannier strategy based in o-minimality that has yielded many results in this area. In this talk, we will explain our generalisation of the strategy to the Zilber-Pink conjecture for any (pure) Shimura variety. This is joint work with J. Ren.